Carolina Panthers waiving quarterback Matt Corral
The Carolina Panthers made a big change to their quarterback room Wednesday according to NFL insider Tom Pelissero, deciding to waive quarterback Matt Corral in his second season in the league.
The Panthers selected Corral with the No. 94 pick in the third round of the 2022 NFL Draft last year following three seasons as the starting quarterback at Ole Miss.
Corral spent the entirety of his rookie season on the Panthers’ injured reserve list after suffering from a Lisfranc injury in a preseason game last year against the New England Patriots.
This preseason Corral appeared in all three of the Panthers’ games, completing 28 of his 47 pass attempts for 249 yards, failing to reach the end zona and throwing one interception. He also added four rush attempts for 47 yards to his stat line, but that wasn’t enough to make Carolina’s 53-man roster.
The Panthers will now be going with two quarterbacks for their current 53-man roster. They drafter quarterback Bryce Young with the No. 1 overall pick of this year’s NFL Draft as their quarterback of the future, also signing league veteran Andy Dalton to back up Young and help in his development.
Corral will be eligible to return to Carolina’s practice squad is he clears waivers, but for now his future is uncertain.
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Corral is yet to prove his worth in the NFL through regular season play, but throughout his career proved he has the talent and potential to have a future in the league.
He was four-star recruit out of Long Beach Poly high school in California, where he was ranked the No. 56 overall player and the No. 6 quarterback in the nation for his 2018 recruiting class according to On3’s Industry Ranking, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
Ole Miss was Corral’s college of choice out of high school, serving as a backup quarterback to Jordan Ta’amu’ in his freshman season where he threw for 239 yards and two touchdowns in a reserve role.
He’d appear in 10 games and make four starts the following season for the Rebels’, leading the team in passing with 1,362 passing yards and six passing touchdowns. But his career would transform in 2020 when head coach Lane Kiffin arrived and he was named Ole Miss’ full time starter.
He’d complete over 70 percent of his passes in 2020 for 3,337 yards and 29 touchdowns, following that with a 3,349-yard season with 20 touchdowns in a senior year where his interception total dropped from 14 to five. Which resulted in him being the fourth quarterback taken in the 2022 NFL Draft.