Panthers promote ex-LB Dan Morgan to GM place

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers on Monday accomplished step one of their rebuilding course of by selling Dan Morgan to president of soccer operations/common supervisor.

Morgan, 45, was the assistant common supervisor beneath Scott Fitterer, who was fired after the Panthers’ league-worst 2-15 season. He additionally spent seven seasons as a linebacker for the Panthers after being chosen within the first spherical of the 2001 draft (eleventh general) out of Miami.

His new title represents an entire restructuring of the entrance workplace.

“Dan has a radical information of our soccer personnel and a transparent imaginative and prescient to take us the place all of us need to go,” Carolina proprietor David Tepper stated in an announcement. “We all know he’ll assault this chance with the identical depth he did as a Panthers participant.”

Morgan already has been actively concerned within the seek for a brand new head coach, which Monday entered the second section with Carolina defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero getting an in-person interview, per league supply.

The Panthers are also scheduled to have in-person interviews this week with Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Dave Canales and Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, based on sources.

Morgan labored with Canales in Seattle when he was the director of professional personnel and Canales was the vast receivers coach. Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, who entered the search because the main candidate, cannot be interviewed till after Sunday’s NFC Championship Sport towards the San Francisco 49ers. The identical goes for Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken and defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, whose staff is taking part in within the AFC Championship Sport towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.

All had digital interviews with Carolina final week.

However getting a common supervisor in place was step one, and Morgan emerged after a second spherical of interviews that additionally included New York Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown and Philadelphia Eagles assistant GM Alex Halaby, based on a league supply.

The Panthers hope Morgan’s expertise as a participant and govt will assist flip round a franchise that has had six consecutive dropping seasons since Tepper bought the franchise. Morgan was a participant at Carolina throughout its 2003 Tremendous Bowl run and the assistant director of professional personnel with Seattle when the Seahawks gained the Tremendous Bowl after the 2013 season.

Morgan additionally was the director of participant personnel for the Buffalo Payments (2018-2020) when Josh Allen was made the seventh decide of the 2018 draft.