4 best late round gems the Carolina Panthers didn’t do enough with

With the draft fast approaching and everyone’s focus squarely on the first round, just what have the Carolina Panthers found in the later rounds?

The NFL Draft is fast approaching for the Carolina Panthers and the first round is getting its usual glitz and glamour with teams vying for that top prospect or mortgaging their future for the opportunity at a potential star. All of this is for good reason as well, the first round’s importance cannot be overstated in relation to a team’s future.

However, a truly good draft is made of more than just one pick and that is what we are looking at today. The hidden gems.

Guys picked in the less glamorous areas with far less expectation and greater performance. Players with a legitimate chip on their shoulder after falling down the rounds and looking up at the guys taken before them more as targets than as fellow players.

The art of picking in the later rounds has been somewhat lost over the years with teams seeming to sometimes throw away the later rounds on prospects no one expects to ever see the field which is a truly sad occurrence. Especially when you look at players like Kurt Warner, Tony Romo, and Adam Vinatieri who went undrafted and made everyone regret that decision.

That is what this article is all about, shining a light on those late-round gems where the Panthers didn’t give up after the third round and still looked for that guy to come in and change things around.

So with the lights shining ever-brighter on the first round and its quarterbacks, let’s take a look into the shadows of the forgotten rounds that Carolina simply didn’t do enough with.