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Featured list: List of Carolina Panthers first-round draft picks |
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| The Carolina Panthers joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1995 as the league's 29th franchise.[1] Their first ever selection was Kerry Collins, a quarterback from Penn State, in the 1995 NFL Draft. The team's most-recent first-round selection was Cam Newton, a quarterback from Auburn University, in the 2011 NFL Draft.
Every year during April, each NFL franchise seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft officially known as "the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting" but more commonly known as the NFL Draft. Teams are ranked in inverse order based on the previous season's record, with the worst record picking first, and the second worst picking second and so on. The two exceptions to this order are made for teams that appeared in the previous Super Bowl; the Super Bowl champion always picks 32nd, and the Super Bowl loser always picks 31st. Teams have the option of trading away their picks to other teams for different picks, players, cash, or a combination thereof. Thus, it is not uncommon for a team's actual draft pick to differ from their assigned draft pick, or for a team to have extra or no draft picks in any round due to these trades.[2] The Panthers' only first overall selection came in 2011, when they selected Newton. They would have picked first in 2002, however, the inception of the Houston Texans that year allowed Houston to pick first instead of Carolina. Carolina had the first overall pick in their inaugural season, but traded the pick to the Bengals for the 5th and 36th overall selection. The Panthers have twice selected a Miami Hurricanes player in the first round: linebacker Dan Morgan in 2001 and Beason in 2007. Player selections
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- ^ "History". Panthers.com. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070429021018/http://www.panthers.com/Team/Default.aspx?id=758. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
- ^ Alder, James. ""NFL Draft Basics:Determining Order of Selection"". About.com. http://football.about.com/od/miscinformation/a/detdraftorder.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ a b c d e "All-Time Honors". Panthers.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927021623/http://www.panthers.com/Team/Default.aspx?id=792. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
- ^ The Panthers acquired the fifth overall pick and a second-round selection (36th overall, used to select Shawn King) from the Cincinnati Bengals in exchange for the first overall pick, which the Bengals used to draft Collins' teammate at Penn State, Ki-Jana Carter.
- ^ The Panthers acquired this pick and a sixth-round pick (188th overall, used to select Steve Strahan) from the Green Bay Packers in exchange for first-round (32nd overall, used to select Craig Newsome), third-round (65th overall, used to select Darius Holland), and sixth-round (173rd overall, used to select Charlie Simmons) picks.
- ^ The Panthers acquired this pick from the San Diego Chargers in exchange for second-round (34th overall, used to select Terrance Shaw), third-round (98th overall, used to select Preston Harrison), and fourth-round (100th overall, used to select Chris Cowart) picks.
- ^ "NC v. Rae Carruth". Court TV.com. http://www.courttv.com/trials/carruth/. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
