The Carolina Panthers closed up their 2025 NFL draft by dropping some news on one of their picks from the 2022 NFL draft.
After making their final selection in the sixth round of Saturday's proceedings, president of football operations and general manager Dan Morgan announced that the team plans on exercising the fifth-year option on starting left tackle Ikem Ekwonu. Ekwonu was Carolina's first-round pick, and sixth overall, from 2022.
"We are gonna pick up Ickey's fifth-year option, just to kinda get that out of the way," Morgan stated. "I just notified him and figured I'd get it out of the way before I talk to you guys.