The Carolina Panthers have selected wide receiver Xavier Legette from South Carolina after trading up one spot to get into the bottom of the first round. The move gives quarterback Bryce Young another weapon in the passing game. The 6-foot-3, 227-pound Legette had 71 catches for 1,255 yards and seven touchdowns last season for the Gamecocks.
FILE - South Carolina wide receiver Xavier Legette looks for his teammates after a 65-yard touchdown reception during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Jacksonville State on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina’s best playmakers on offense the past two years are all gone, meaning this spring is a search for consistency and production from an attack that had its struggles last season.
The 6-foot-3, 227-pound Legette had 71 catches for 1,255 yards and seven touchdowns last season for the Gamecocks. He had no more than 18 receptions in a season in his first four years at South Carolina before emerging in 2023. Legette gives the Panthers another option to go along with Diontae Johnson, Adam Thielen and last year’s second-round pick, Jonathan Mingo.The Panthers didn’t have a first-round pick entering the night. The team traded that pick — which turned out to to be the No. 1 overall pick — to the Chicago Bears last year to move up to get Young. The Bears used that pick on quarterback Caleb Williams.
The Panthers traded the 33rd overall pick and one of their fifth-round picks to the Buffalo Bills for the 32nd pick and the Bills’ sixth-round selection.
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