Panthers General Manager Dan Morgan made clear at his media availability on Tuesday that Andy Dalton will have to compete for his backup quarterback job. The 38-year-old, though, might not even make it out of the offseason program with the Panthers.<\/p>\n
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Panthers have received calls about a potential trade for the veteran quarterback.<\/p>\n
Dalton has spent the past three seasons in Carolina, making seven starts. He has 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions.<\/p>\n
The Panthers are seeking a younger quarterback to develop behind Bryce Young.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndy knows he\u2019s going to have to compete,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cWe are going to try to bring somebody in here. I don\u2019t know who that is, whether through free agency or the draft or both, you never know. So I\u2019m in constant communication with Andy. We\u2019ve talked multiple times, and he\u2019s aware of the plan, and we\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really up to Andy, in terms of Andy competing. Andy\u2019s not afraid of competition, so we\u2019ll see what happens in free agency; we\u2019ll see what happens in the draft; and then we\u2019ll see how it plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dalton has started 169 games in his career, but he has not been a full-time starter since 2022 with the Saints, when he started 14 games. He has made a living as a backup quarterback since leaving the Bengals after the 2019 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers General Manager Dan Morgan made clear at his media availability on Tuesday that Andy Dalton will have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-490531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}