Linebacker Shaq Thompson's time with the Carolina Panthers is over, as the team informed its former first-round pick it would not be re-signing him, allowing Thompson to explore his options in free agency.

Every single interior lineman the Panthers put on the field was both ineffective as a pass rusher and utterly hopeless against the run, so it's not difficult to imagine the front office replacing everyone beneath Brown on the depth chart in the coming days - beginning with making Shy Tuttle and A'Shawn Robinson salary cap casualties.