2026 NFL Draft: Panthers GM Dan Morgan, staff going deep, 'getting to know guys'
Carolina's front office utilizes personal skills to help evaluate potential draft picks.
2026 NFL Draft: Panthers GM Dan Morgan, staff going deep, 'getting to know guys' originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . CHARLOTTE, N.
C. -- Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan is taking his front-office personnel deeper into the 2026 NFL Draft process. After spending hours evaluating game film and investigating the character of up to 600 prospects on his initial prospects list, Morgan continues to ask his staff to take the next step and form a business-friendly relationship with those who made the initial cuts.
The Panthers are preparing to bring in their Top 30 players to Bank of America Stadium for further evaluation - and camaraderie. The draft will be staged April 23-25 in Pittsburgh. After getting to know the players from a distance, the Panthers' draft team aims to gauge whether a player could be a cultural fit, not just a schematic asset.
"I think really it's us getting to know guys," Morgan said during Tuesday's pre-draft press conference . "I feel like if you're going to miss on a guy, you're going to miss because you know what he's about from a personal character standpoint and you don't know what he's about from a football standpoint. " "So we want to find out as much as we can about these guys as possible, understand how passionate they are, what they like to do away from the game, how they spend their time away from the facility.