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We continue our NFC South look at each team's weakest link with the Carolina Panthers and their defensive secondary. When I look at Carolina's defensive front seven on paper, I think it might be the best in the NFC South. That better hold true and...

Time for a look at the Sunday morning headlines from around the NFC South: ATLANTA FALCONS Brian Banks opened rookie minicamp working at middle linebacker. Banks was signed by the Falcons in April. He spent more than five years in prison before...

Largely due to salary-cap limitations, the Carolina Panthers haven't made huge changes this offseason. They'll have a starting lineup similar to what they opened last season with. But the good news is they'll be getting multiple players back that mis...

D.J. Moore wasn't quite the magnitude of player I had in mind when I wrote earlier Tuesday that a run on big-name cornerbacks is coming in the NFC South. But Moore, who played nickel back for Chicago last season, has been signed by the Carolina Pa...

The Carolina Panthers, who began free agency quietly, finally are making some noise. They've signed veteran cornerback Drayton Florence and re-signed backup quarterback Derek Anderson. Although Florence is 32 and started only three games with D...

Right tackle Byron Bell led the Carolina Panthers in money earned from the 2012 performance-based pool, which is designed to reward players with low base salaries that get significant playing time. Bell earned an extra $255,000, according to leagu...

The Carolina Panthers just parted ways with their best cornerback. They released veteran Chris Gamble. The move was necessary to get the Panthers under the salary cap. Gamble had been scheduled to count $10.9 million against this year's cap. The m...

Welcome to Eight in the Box, an NFL Nation feature that will appear each Friday during the offseason. This week's topic: Who should be the primary target (including trades) for each team when free agency begins? Atlanta Falcons. After releasing ve...

Since we didn't have an NFC South chat Friday, let's make up for it with an NFC South mailbag: Cory in Cardington, Ohio asks what the Falcons will do at running back now that Michael Turner has been released. Pat Yasinskas: I know there's been ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- How deep is the football talent in Louisiana? Consider this: Every football bowl subdivision (FBS) conference in the nation has had a least two Louisiana players sign letters of intent with its member schools for the 2013 recru...

As I've been running through playing-time numbers for the 2012 season, I've been highlighting the guys who played huge amounts. But, in this post about Carolina's defense, we're going to go in the opposite direction. Injuries were a big story for ...

In Louisiana's prep football playoffs, a 21 seed (New Orleans/McDonogh 35) made the Class 4A semifinals, a 22 seed (Kendell Beckwith-led Clinton/East Feliciana) made the Class 3A semis and three teams seeded 21 or lower made the Class 2A quarterfinal...

Leonard Fournette is now in off-season mode. The dream's long over for Jeryl Brazil and countless others. But for 20 Louisiana teams and many of the state's top prospects, semifinal week brings them within one game of their ultimate goal as high s...

It might not be the marquee matchup that many of us imagined back when the schedule first came out, but the "Monday Night Football" game between the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles has been entertaining so far. At halftime, the Eagles ha...

In the Louisiana High School Athletic Association football playoffs, Thanksgiving weekend is the time the state's football playoffs shift gears. With each of the five classes down to eight teams, the quarterfinals usually give football fans plenty of...

As Louisiana's high school football playoffs reach their second week, the matchups get better in the five classes, each whittled down to a field of 16 remaining teams, many who feature some of the state's top prospects. In Class 5A, West Monroe and S...