CHARLOTTE — Rookie outside linebacker Nic Scourton , who was hospitalized in Houston Thursday night with a collapsed lung, was back outside and moving around on Monday afternoon.

"Huge improvement," Panthers head coach Dave Canales said with a big smile, when asked about the condition of the second-round pick.

That's not necessarily what they were expecting, the way the events of last week unfolded.

Scourton left the joint practice with the Texans with what was initially thought to be heat-related symptoms. But once they got him back to the team hotel, further checks by the team's medical staff showed it was more serious than that.

So he was taken to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, where he spent the night for observation. Friday, they loaded him up with his family and a membe

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