For the third week in a row, the Carolina Panthers are licking their wounds following a close-in-the-first-half loss while hoping for good news on the injury front. So far, that hope has not been rewarded. Yesterday’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks featured potentially significant injuries to cornerback C.J. Henderson (ankle), safety Xavier Woods (hanstring), linebacker and new team captain Frankie Luvu (hip), and wide receiver Jonathan Mingo (concussion). None of these players returned to the game after leaving it.
The long and short of this game is that it was close and may have remained so if the team’s depth, thin as it already was, wasn’t stretched that much further.