Kenny Pickett
QB · CAR · 28 yrs · exp 4 · Pittsburgh
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#411
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Steelers might opt to keep all four quarterbacks on the opening 53-man roster
Coach Mike McCarthy thinks all four QBs may make the roster
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Steelers might opt to keep all 4 quarterbacks on the opening 53-man roster
Steelers coach Mike McCarthy on keeping 4 QBs on the roster
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Steelers QB Will Howard being evaluated for injury
Steelers QB Will Howard suffered injury vs. Bills
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Anthony Richardson, Joey Porter Jr. among potential trade candidates with NFL cutdown day looming
NFL players potentially on the trade block as cutdown day looms
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Ryan Fitzgerald hits 61-yard FG for Panthers
Panthers starting quarterback Bryce Young played 11 snaps on Friday against the Jaguars. He completed 5 of 6 passes for 49 yards and a 100.7 passer rating despite being pressured on three of his throws. In Young’s two drives, the Panthers punted and scored a touchdown on a seven-play, 58-yard drive. Jonathon Brooks scored on a 1-yard run. Kenny Pickett replaced Young. The Panthers ended the half with a 61-yard field goal by Ryan Fitzgerald. In his rookie season, Fitzgerald didn’t try any kicks of 60 yards and had a long of 57 yards
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Waiver: Kenny Pickett added, Trey Lance dropped
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Adds: Kenny Pickett. Drops: Trey Lance
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Bryce Young and Panthers' offense go three-and-out on all three drives
Panthers quarterback Bryce Young is not off to a good start this preseason. Young played three series against the Bills today, his first preseason action this year after sitting out the Hall of Fame Game. The Panthers went three-and-out on all three of them. When the Panthers’ offense took the field for its fourth drive, backup quarterback Kenny Pickett was under center, and Young will stay on the sideline for the rest of the game. Young ended up with a stat line of 3-for-5 for 18 yards, with no touchdowns, no turnovers, and one sack
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Steelers stock report after their 28-9 preseason win over the Green Bay Packers
Who impressed and who disappointed in the Steelers first preseason action?
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Could Steelers keep four QBs on opening roster?
There's a scenario where the Steelers keep four quarterbacks on their opening 53-man roster. How likely it it to happen?
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Panthers starters will play Saturday night against the Bills
The Panthers opened their preseason slate in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In one of the most entertaining exhibition games in recent memory, Haynes King had a 5-yard touchdown run on the final play to beat the Cardinals 33-30. Carolina’s starters did not play Thursday night. The Panthers will play their starters, including quarterback Bryce Young, on Saturday night in the Bills’ first game at the new Highmark Stadium. “Yes, yes,” Canales said Sunday about the starters playing, via Anthony Rizzuti of USA Today. “ We will play this week , for sure. We’ll take it week by week. We’ll get them out there, probably play something similar to what Kenny [Pickett] and that group played in the Hall of Fame Game. So it’ll be somewhere between 10 and 20 plays, depending on how those drives pan out, so we can just get some good work in.”
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Bryce Young Will Play in Preseason Game Against Buffalo
Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales said that the starters, including quarterback Bryce Young, will play in the team's preseason game this week against the Buffalo Bills, according to Panthers reporter Kassidy Hill. Young and the starters should get around 10 to 20 plays, depending on how the drives develop. The 25-year-old Young didn't take part in the team's Hall of Fame game last Thursday against the Arizona Cardinals, so he'll see his first preseason action this week. The former first overall pick in 2023 from the University of Alabama had the best year of his career in his third season in 2025, completing 63.6% of his pass attempts for 3,011 yards, 23 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions in 16 regular-season starts while leading the team to the NFC South title. However, it's debatable as to how much higher a ceiling Young has, especially since he doesn't have a big arm or very exciting targets outside of receiver Tetairoa McMillan. Young appears to be trending towards being a solid NFL starting QB, but for fantasy purposes, he's more of a low-end QB2 target with a low ceiling
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Haynes King (hamstring) week-to-week
by Ari Koslow | Panthers Correspondent | Sat, Aug 8th 2026, 5:12pm EDT Panthers rookie QB Haynes King is week-to-week with a hamstring injury. ( Joe Person on Twitter ) Fantasy Impact: King was the hero of the Hall of Fame game as he scored the winning touchdown on the very last play. He was expected to compete for the backup job with Kenny Pickett. He'll be sidelined for at least one week. Panthers rookie QB Haynes King, hero of the Hall of Fame Game, is week to week with a hamstring injury, per league source. Team plans to sign another QB. Free link: https://t.co/B2MDhYrDKm Category: Injury Updates | More Haynes King : News , Rankings , Projections , Stats Add FantasyPros on Google
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John Metchie III a Candidate for WR3 Job in Carolina
Carolina Panthers wide receiver John Metchie III, who is with his fourth different NFL team in 2026 in a little more than 11 months, had a 19-yard rush and a 36-yard kick return in Thursday's Hall of Fame preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals. With rookie wideout Chris Brazzell II (knee) already ruled out for the 2026 season, The Charlotte Observer's Mike Kaye suggests that Metchie has a real shot to compete for the WR3 role this year in Carolina behind Tetairoa McMillan and Jalen Coker. The 26-year-old's primary competition will be Xavier Legette, a former first-rounder who has disappointed in his first two years in the NFL. If Metchie makes more noise in training camp and the preseason, he could have a role in the slot with the Panthers, although it wouldn't generate enough volume for the former second-rounder from Alabama to be much more than a bench stash in deeper redraft formats. In 16 games with the Philadelphia Eagles and Houston Texans in 2025, Metchie had career highs with 33 catches, 274 yards, and two touchdowns on 48 targets
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Haynes King leads Panthers to 33-30 win on final play of Hall of Fame Game
Haynes King wasn’t drafted despite being the ACC Player of the Year last season. The Panthers signed the former Georgia Tech star quarterback as a free agent, and he showed Thursday night maybe someone should have drafted him. Third on the team’s depth chart, King replaced veteran Kenny Pickett with 9:38 remaining in the first half and the Panthers trailing 14-7. King completed 21 of 34 passes for 180 yards and two touchdowns, a 15-yarder and a 5-yarder. He also ran for 39 yards on three carries, including scoring on a 5-yard jaunt on the final play of the game. It gave the Panthers a 33-30 victory. In one of the most entertaining Hall of Fame Games ever, the Cardinals gained 425 yards and the Panthers 378. Rookie Carson Beck started for Arizona and went 15-of-19 for 188 yards and a touchdown before turning it over to fourth-string quarterback Kedon Slovis, who was 9-of-10 for 106 yards and a touchdown
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Panthers vs Cardinals Prop Picks for Tonight's Hall of Fame Game
Panthers vs. Cardinals props for tonight's Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, including Kenny Pickett and Bam Knight
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2026 Hall of Fame Game Panthers vs. Cardinals NFL odds, trends: Carolina terrible preseason bet past 3 years
Our long national nightmare is over tonight as the NFL returns with the annual preseason-opening Hall of Fame Game from the site of the Pro Football Hall in Canton, Ohio. I highly recommend visiting if you ever get the chance. This year, the game features the Carolina Panthers "at" the Arizona Cardinals with a kick of 8 p.m. ET on NBC. The Panthers are 1.5-point favorites in the latest NFL odds at FanDuel , and the Over/Under for total points is set at 35.5. Fans who want to try NFL betting at the best sports betting apps and top sports betting sites can stay up to date with information from our NFL news page. Bettors should also look for picks from the simulations of the SportsLine Projection Model and our experts on regular-season games for the 2026 NFL season. I'm certainly not going to be previewing every NFL exhibition game in this space, but if there are standalones like this one, then I may do so, as I'll probably be betting on them just like the rest of you. There are 34 days until the regular-season opener from Seattle on Sept. 9 – remember, a Wednesday this year and not Thursday. The NFL nowadays picks teams for this game that have players being inducted into the Hall over the weekend. Carolina has former linebacker and NFL Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year Luke Kuechly going in. He had his career cut short by injury and at 35 will be tied as the second-youngest enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Arizona has receiver Larry Fitzgerald being inducted, and he has the second-most receiving yards (17,492) in NFL history and sixth-most receiving TDs (121). The rest of the class is Drew Brees, Roger Craig and Adam Vinatieri . Wager on the NFL with the latest FanDuel promo code and get up to $1,000 in bet resets when you bet $5 for 5 days: Needless to say, few if any starters on either side will play tonight. Kenny Pickett will get the call under center for Carolina, and obviously he's an established veteran if former first-round bust. I should say regular-season bust as Pickett holds a career passer rating of just 78.2. That would have ranked 35th in the NFL last season – when Pickett did get into six games with the Raiders -- and behind the likes of Jameis Winston , Davis Mills , Joe Flacco and Chris Oladokun . That said, in his nine-game preseason career Pickett has completed 77% of his passes for six touchdowns with no interceptions and a 116.7 passer rating that would have led the NFL in the 2025 regular season. But Pickett, locked in as the backup to Bryce Young , is only expected to play a couple of series and then give way to undrafted rookie Haynes King , a dual threat out of Georgia Tech. Some franchise/head coaches care about the preseason and some don't. Carolina appears in the latter category even pre-dating current head coach Dave Canales by a year – he's in his third season. The Panthers have lost eight of their past nine exhibition games, with that lone win in 2024 at Buffalo. Generally speaking, when a team loses a preseason game , it won't cover because the spreads are so low, and the Cats are indeed also 1-8 ATS in their past nine. Favorites are 5-1 in the past six Hall of Fame Games, for what that's worth. The Over has hit in the past four, and that's because set at such a minuscule total: 35.5 tonight, which is two points higher than any of the past four HOF games. Check out NFL picks at DraftKings, where new users get $150 in bonus bets paid within 14 days after they spend $5+: While we somewhat know what to expect with Carolina, the Cardinals are a bit of a blank slate under an entirely new coaching staff led by Mike LaFleur, the former Rams offensive coordinator. First-year head coaches like to establish a winning culture out of the gate. Rookie third-round pick Carson Beck out of Miami will start under center, and he's currently listed third-string on the roster behind Jacoby Brissett and Gardner Minshew . Beck will become the first quarterback to play in the [... truncated ...]
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The Hall of Fame game QB matchup is set. Here's who's taking the field
Carson Beck and Kenny Pickett are set to start at quarterback for the Hall of Fame game, marking the beginning of the NFL preseason
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Steelers stock report after Day Five of training camp
Steelers stock report after Day Five of training camp
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