It’s been a rough start for the last-place Carolina Panthers this season, but to rarify matters, they lost starting signal caller Baker Mayfield to a left hand articulatio talocruralis injury. Backup quarterback PJ Walker will take up against the Los Angeles Rams inward Week 6.
On Monday, the Panthers fired lead train Matt Rhule after a 1-4 start to this season. Rhule had an overall record of 11-27 inwards Carolina, and team up proprietor David Tepper eventually got sick of losing.
The San Francisco 49ers henpecked the Panthers inward Week 5 in a game that was not as secretive as the 37-15 last musical score indicated. Mayfield suffered an ankle joint accidental injury inward the number 1 half against the 49ers, but continued to recreate despite the injury. On Monday, an MRI revealed a high-ankle sprain and Mayfield is expected to lack several weeks of action.
A small painful rightfulness now,” said Mayfield after the biz piece exiting the arena in a walking boot.
The medium high-ankle sprain takes anyplace from quadruplet to vi weeks to heal.
With Mayfield at the helm, the Panthers averaged 18.6 points per mettlesome as the eight-lowest scoring offense in the NFL. In number yards, the Panthers have the mop up all-around offensive in the conference averaging 271.4 tot up yards per game.
Even though they hold dual-threat running rearwards Christian McCaffrey, the Panthers are the sixth-lowest rushing squad in the NFL averaging 89.8 yards per game. With Mayfield at quarterback, Panthers averaged 181.6 release yards per game with the fifth-lowest loss attempt inward the league.
Mayfield Struggled After Trade to Carolina
The Grover Cleveland Browns took a flyer on Mayfield with the #1 break up inward the 2018 NFL Draft, but he ne'er lived up to the lofty expectations that are squeeze upon any number 1 pick.
During the 2021 harden with the Browns, Mayfield gutted through and through a torn labrum on his non-throwing shoulder, but struggled with a 6-8 record book as a starter motor inward 14 games. He threw a life history low-toned 17 touchdowns, but also coughed the clump up with 14 interceptions.
After the Browns acquired Deshaun James Watson inward a blockbuster patronage with the Sam Houston Texans shoemaker's last March, the Browns put Mayfield on the trading block. The Browns did not theater many calls from teams eager to supply Mayfield to their roster. He was coming sour shoulder surgery, but his stats and high salary were a deterrent. The heroic Panthers were non 100% sold on Sam Darnold as their starting quarterback, so they added Mayfield in a patronage inwards July.
In five games this season, Mayfield completed 84-of-153 passes for a 54.9% closing rate. He connected on only if quaternion touchdown passes and threw quaternary interceptions. He added single rushing touchdown but had V fumbles.
It is a lot of frustration,” Mayfield said after the Week 5 loss. “And the more you suppose about it, choler because we haven’t played to our capabilities.”
Mayfield has a cringe-worthy 16.5 QBR rating, which is the second lowest rating in NFL history for any quarterback through and through the foremost cinque games of the flavor since they began tracking the stat inward 2006.
The Panthers hope a coaching job alteration will shake off up the team, but a signal caller alteration could also inject some much-needed lifespan into the listless offense.
PJ Alice Walker Next Isle of Man Up for Panthers
Darnold thought he was battling Mayfield for the starting quarterback job inward the preseason. However, Darnold suffered a high-ankle sprain inward their preseason coda against the Buffalo Bills. The Panthers placed Darnold on the IR, so Mayfield won the starting signal caller job by default.
The Panthers selected signal caller Matt Corral with a third-round break up in the 2022 NFL Draft, but he took a speculative round during a preseason mettlesome against the New England Patriots. Corral went push down with a Lisfranc hoof injury and testament lack his intact rookie season.
With 2 quarterbacks going knock down in the preseason, PJ Alice Walker moved up the depth chart and took over the backup role in arrears Mayfield when the harden began.
Interim chief private instructor Steve Wilks named Alice Walker the starter motor inwards a route gamey against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. The Panthers are +11 underdogs versus the Rams. The Panthers are unity of the worst betting teams in the NFL this flavor with a 1-4 ATS record.
Walker is the next piece upward inwards the revolution and will have over as the starter. Darnold has non full healed from his ankle injury, and he’s noneffervescent a span of weeks aside from returning to action.
Walker made a name for himself in the XFL a span of years agone before he joined the Panthers. He has a 2-0 put down filling inward for the Panthers as a spot starting motor for ace game in 2020, and another lowest season. In modified action over the lowest deuce seasons, Alice Malsenior Walker completed only if 55% of his passes with two touchdowns and octonary interceptions.
Walker saw some activeness against the 49ers inwards Week 5. He completed quintuplet passes for 60 yards patch fill in for Mayfield during single possession. He was also sacked twice.