So I refuse to get myself excited about the Panthers pick being number 1 because there is still so much season to play, don’t want to be disappointed. But it looks overwhelming likely at this point that worse case scenario it’s going to be top 10. The 10th pick in the draft had a 7-10 record the last 2 seasons meaning the Panthers would have to go 7-5 the rest of the season to land there.
Top 5? In 2021 the 5th pick went 4-13, last year the 5th pick went 5-12. To go 4-13 the Panthers would have to go 4-8 the rest of the season which seems fairly reasonable even with improvement.
The biggest issue right now is SOS, they’ve played a tough SOS and while it does get lighter it will probably hurt us in tiebreakers later on. But pretty good chance of a top 5 pick and then there’s still our pick which could be right there too unfortunately.