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NFL Free Agency: 10 Players that make the Carolina Panthers a Week 1 Winner

July 30, 2011   ·     ·   Jump to comments

The first week of the new NFL season is almost in the books, and there have been two surprises thus far. The first is how stacked the Eagles defense has become.
They began by adding defensive end Jason Babin who had 12.5 sacks last season, but then they get corner Dominique Rogers Cromartie (trade) and Nnamdi Asomugha through free agency. They also have Cullen Jenkins as this article was being written.
That was just pure dominance, but the other surprise team looked inward to retain its core players and add veteran leadership to other positions—that team is the Carolina Panthers.
The Panthers had been treated like a second-class citizen by analysts, talk shows and other sports writers. They had one bad season with a coach 95 percent out the door, a team purged of almost all veterans, a rookie receiving corps and a quarterback that clearly was not ready to play.
Many have been speculating where Carolina’s free agents would go, as surely they would not com...

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