re: Auburn in the NFL

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Sure. But the Panthers have given Cam no help at WR.

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This is true, but the rebuild job the Panthers GM had when he came in was significant. He couldn't do it all at once. So WR so far has been the position where money has tried to be saved.

Gettleman (the Panthers GM) has done a masterful job IMO since he took the Panthers GM seat. He took a roster full of no-talent nobodies and old, overpaid players on the downside of their careers, with a salary cap exploding and has turned it into a pretty young and pretty talented team, with much of their core talent resigned to long(er) term contracts that are more friendly to the cap. Thomas Davis, Greg Olsen, Cam Newton and (soon, but not quite yet) Luke Kuechly will be locked down for the foreseeable future.

Kawann Shot, Star Lotulelei, Josh Norman are on the clock for new contracts in the next few years (Norman after this season, actually).

And, in doing this, he *has* improved the OL and the WR, but buy shades of grey and not leaps and bounds. There's just not enough money to go around. I also think the RB situation is better this year (with the addition of CAP and the release of D. Williams) than it has been in years.

So, long story short, the loss of Benjamin hurts... bad. But the lack of established talent at the WR position wasn't because nobody wanted to have talent there, it was more the luck of the GM team-building draw.