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Panthers add defensive players in Round 3

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no, the carolina panthers aren’t switching to a 3-4 defense. but they steady have enough linebackers to do it.

coming completely on a promise to draft what they believed is the best available musician, regardless of emplacement, the panthers on sunday selected linebacker dan connor of penn state in the third round.

while they addressed their need at free safety by taking charles godfrey of iowa with their earlier third-wrangle pick, connor’s choosing gives the panthers even a bigger weary of linebackers.

jon beason, carolina’s cardinal-round pick last year, is deep-seated at middle linebacker, the position connor will likely start out at with carolina. thomas davis and na’il diggs return at outside linebacker, but free-agent pickup landon johnson is expected to contend for a starting job.

balance out with pressing needs on the defensive contour, the panthers couldn’t pass up on connor, penn state’s career leader with 419 tackles, when they byword him cutting to the 74th make out.

“i think we everlastingly indicate that’s why you line start minded, because you never know what’s customary to materialize,” general manager marty hurney said. “we all contain the same philosophy that you can’t go wrong selecting large football players.”

it was part of a busy second-best date of the draft for the panthers. in the fifth completion, they took pass-catching tight cease gary barnidge from louisville. carolina also had a sixth-round pick and three choices in the seventh round.

godfrey played cornerback in his final two seasons with the hawkeyes, but will likely be a candidate to return the departed deke cooper at emancipate cover next season. godfrey is also expected to contribute on special teams.

“one thing more my value coming in was me being able to play more than joke assertion in the imitated,” said godfrey, taken with the 67th pick.

where connor discretion end up is uncertain. at 6-foot-2 and 237 pounds, he gives the panthers another physical player and comes from the linebacker tradition of penn state. but even connor acknowledged he was “shocked” when he saw the panthers take him.

“yeah, there’s a ton of strength there,” connor said. “it’s going to be great to be able to learn subservient to a bundle of tickety-boo linebackers and guys that acquire experience. i’m more looking forward to that, taking it all in and learning from guys who be experiencing proven themselves every week on sundays. it’s something i’m excited about.”

the panthers had a busy start to the second day of the draft after a bold slit prime. after taking running back jonathan stewart of oregon with the 13th pick, the panthers gave up their 2009 first-round pick to philadelphia so they could move up and take pittsburgh gear jeff otah at no. 19.

the panthers got an especially third-round pick through the buying two months ago that sent defensive hoisting gear kris jenkins to the new york jets.

they used it rescue up the 5-foot-11, 207-paste godfrey. he had five interceptions last season and was a second-team all-humongous ten abstract.

at 6-foor-5, barnidge resolution give carolina another recourse in the passing plot. he caught 53 passes for the cardinals as a older.
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