At 13th Overall, Panthers Take RB Stewart

And here's what is perhaps one of the first curveballs, Panthers taking RB Johnathan Stewart. Him and Deangelo Williams are probably going to work together in the backfield, but you can't imagine that Williams is happy about this choice. 

One of the weirder things here is Stewart going above Mendenhall. It's a stroke of luck for the Bears and possibly the Lions. Stewart had the turf toe injury concerns, but the Panthers clearly don't think that's a big deal. 

A lot of people thought that the Panthers were going to take a lineman, but instead they're jumping ahead of several teams that need RBs (Bears, Lions, Cardinals, Chiefs, Texans...). This is rough news for some of them, since although this is a deep RB draft, some of those teams might end up slightly reaching. What's important is that the RBs might not reach the Cowboys, who were in a market for one. Although they also need CBs, who are falling like crazy, what they might do with those picks (trade up, trade down) is going to be interesting.