Each week the Carolina Panthers play in 2018, the Observer will choose a potential gamechanger — the player most likely to make a huge impact on the game. This week’s choice:
Linebacker Thomas Davis
Panthers lineman Dorian Johnson knows firsthand the sort of damage running back James Conner can do. After all, for the better part of four years as college teammates at Pittsburgh, Johnson was the man helping Conner do his wrecking.
“The O-line and him, we had a mutual respect for one another,” Johnson said Tuesday. “He knew we were gonna be there on our blocks, and we knew that if we got our blocks, he was going to make something out of it.