Captain Munnerlyn swears it’s going to be different this season.
That’s what the Carolina Panthers nickel cornerback wants, anyway, after a 2017 that he characterizes as “very disappointing” — a season in which he said he was too often “pouting” and playing “with a lot of anger.”
Brought in on a four-year contract in early 2017 to be the Panthers’ nickel cornerback, Munnerlyn instead found himself spending large stretches of time on the bench last fall. He didn’t like it and made that dislike public, starting in the first month of the season when he played only 11 snaps in a September loss to New Orleans.