Panthers turned down 2 1st-rounders for Burns

The Carolina Panthers acquired 4 draught picks for Christian McCaffrey and 2 different picks for Robbie Anderson, but they rejected the astir lucrative connection they received implicit the past week for pass-rushing standout Brian Burns.

One squad offered 2 first-round picks to the Panthers for Burns, league sources told ESPN.

The Panthers told that team, however, that they are not trading Burns, who is successful the mediate of his 4th NFL play connected a woody that pays him $2.34 cardinal successful basal wage this year.

Burns, 24, is expected to onshore a monolithic hold this offseason, erstwhile the marketplace connected walk rushers is acceptable to detonate with much large deals coming for players similar Burns, Nick Bosa, Bradley Chubb and others.

The Panthers besides informed inquiring teams that they are not trading wide receiver DJ Moore, antiaircraft lineman Derrick Brown and cornerback Jaycee Horn -- each of whom Carolina presumption arsenic foundational players.

With the NFL's Nov. 1 commercialized deadline approaching, the Panthers volition proceed fielding calls, arsenic they already person connected linebacker Shaq Thompson and different players.

The Panthers already made a huge splash this past Thursday nighttime with their blockbuster woody involving McCaffrey, who was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for second-, third- and fourth-round picks successful 2023 and a fifth-round prime successful 2024.

Panthers wide manager Scott Fitterer insisted 1 time later that the determination to commercialized the prima moving backmost was not astir tanking the remainder of the play to get the apical prime successful adjacent year's draft, saying the organization's "focus is inactive going retired and competing each weekend. We expect to win."

Carolina also traded Anderson this past Monday to the Arizona Cardinals for undisclosed draught prime compensation. Sources told ESPN the Panthers volition person a 2024 sixth-round prime and a 2025 seventh-rounder for the seasoned wide receiver.