{"id":612778,"date":"2026-04-18T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612778\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:06:09","slug":"nfl-mock-draft-2026-carolina-panthers-select-dillon-thieneman-s-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612778\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL mock draft 2026: Carolina Panthers select Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon (by Walker Clement at Cat Scratch Reader)<\/p>\n<p>Thieneman represents more of a wishlist prospect than an expectation with the 19th overall pick. He is a big, athletic safety who would slot in as the only true free safety on the Panthers roster, immediately upgrading Carolina&#8217;s secondary. The Panthers have not prioritized the idea of a free safety in three years of Ejiro Evero&#8217;s defense. This is their opportunity to improve their entire defense with one pick by making the jobs of everyone, from Jaelan Phillips to Tre&#8217;von Moerhig, that much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon (by Walker Clement at Cat Scratch Reader) Thieneman represents more of a wishlist prospect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-612778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}