How much the Carolina Panthers are worried about the future of the second round recovery choice in 2024, Jonathon Brooks? It could be worse than we were led to believe.
Here are three nfl nuggets after the first day of the new year of the NFL:
What is Carolina’s plan for RB Jonathon Brooks this season?
It is not a secret that the second tear of the LCA at the right knee of the Panthers of Caroline which run Jonathon Brooks is extremely worrying. The way the panthers attack this could shed light on how the franchise is concerned at the moment.
The panthers sign the ball carrier Rico Dowdle to a one -year agreement, strongly pointing a plan that seems to look at the Brooks seated for the entire 2025 season. To sea of prudence and develop a plan in the next 18 months offers Brooks a chance to enter the training camp in 2026 both entirely healthy and as possible as possible about his knee right.
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Even taking this approach, a source of the league said there were a lot of concerns about the development of Brooks in all of this. While the 46th choice of draft in total last year is extremely young (he will not be 22 years before July), he will have played very little high -level football when he will come out again on the field for the Panthers. Brooks had only 54 keys rushing and receiving its first two seasons as a backup for the Texas Longhorns, then 212 others, before finally tearing the ACL to the right knee and entering the draft. This was followed by only 12 keys as a recruit for the Panthers before tearing the ACL again.
It is not a lot of football development over a four -year period. And now there is a very real question to find out if Brooks will never have access to its considerable ceiling if its right knee is reduced.
Panthers adopt the most cautious approach possible. But any presumption that Brooks will bounce back and become the Carolina player hoped that he was never so trembling.
Potential commercial targets for Kirk Cousins: Browns, Steelers
I was a little surprised Wednesday when I heard definitively from two league sources that Falcons would not publish cousins on Sunday to avoid triggering $ 10 million in fully guaranteed salary in 2026 via a list bonus. But after spending time making additional calls, the motive seemed clear: Falcons saw that there is not enough And Solve the problem of another team by releasing it.
If it seems that Falcons put teams in their reticle for compression, it is because they are. More specifically, the Browns of Cleveland and perhaps the Pittsburgh Steelers, according to what is happening with Aaron Rodgers.
Falcons are currently working with two information. First, they know that the Browns want to bring another quarter to balance the position and the cousins would be the most familiar – having worked with head coach Kevin Stefanski – and a profitable option if it were to be unleashed by Atlanta. Second, Falcons know some about Steelers coaches staff really prefer not to turn to Russell Wilson in 2025, and there is a chance that if Rodgers chooses New York giants or retirement, Pittsburgh can consider cousins as an emergency option.
The meaning I get: if they have no other option, the Falcons would be cousins as a backup, since they pay it in 2025 despite everything, and it has no history to launch an adjustment if it is presented with a challenge. This does not mean that cousins are satisfied with the management that it is heading. He wants to start somewhere in the NFL next season, and he said to the owner of Falcons Arthur Blank as much when they met last week. But Blank and the Falcons Front Office take the position they pay good money and there is nothing to say that they have to pay it while making him happy by releasing him and helping another franchise.
The exit here is the offering of a kind of asset whose Falcons would be satisfied, how much they would abandon the cousins via trade and pay most of his salary in 2025. And the target seems to be the browns.
Meanwhile, the Browns response is to do what they are doing right now: align a visit with Wilson, scheduled for Thursday and keep their options open with a back -on -back player like Joe Flacco and potential draft options.
Ohio State RB Quinshon Judkins now a first round choice?
With Ashton Jeanty de Boisse State, a lock and Omarion Hampton de Caroline du Nord, a strong possibility of landing in the first round of the next NFL draft, you can now feel a building buzz on Quinshon Judkins from Ohio State out of the combination of scouts. So much so, there is a chance that the league will see a trio of running backs in the first round for the first time since 2018, when Saquon Barkley, Rashaad Penny and Sony Michel were all drafted inside the first 31 choices.
You can see at least a lean marker in the Running Back Running Back class in the way the Running Back-Alent class takes place, with practically all the best runner talents available to get something other than a year-long negotiation offers with low lighting by low lighting trolleys with the Dowdled with Caroline Carches.
The reason: the teams like the talent of the incoming rear race class, and they think that there can be even more high -end juice than we thought was originally.
The big winner of this evaluation seems to be judkins, who raised the eyebrows among several high -ranking talent assessors when he ran a 4.48 -second dashboard of 40 yards at 6 feet and 221 pounds. He also presented the explosiveness with a vertical jump of 38.5 inches and 11 feet wide, while lighting the interview rooms with his personality. An assessor with whom I spoke told me that the representatives of Judkins had advised him not to train at the combine harvester after the Buckeyes won the national university football championship. He refused these advice and did a complete training, rather than waiting for the professional day of Ohio State. Given his penchant to play a physical football brand that illustrates his love for contact, the teams were happy to see him present themselves and compete in the combine harvester when others would not do it.
All this reminded teams of the first first year of Ole Miss True which was one of the best runners in the country in 2022 and capable of playing in the NFL at the age of 19 before transferring to the Ohio State.
Keep an eye on the Judkins potentially getting in the first round of the draft to a team that reflects its style of play in the position and needs a long -term running back solution ( * cough * pittsburgh steelers).
