CHARLOTTE — This week, all the attention will be on the people who are going away.

When teams reduce their rosters from 90 to 53, that's natural, since nearly 1,200 NFL players are becoming unemployed all at once.

But we also need to spend a second thinking about what has been gained in the last week.

Extending right tackle Taylor Moton 's contract through 2027 is a good piece of business at multiple levels for the Panthers, and when we talk about T-Mo, we often zoom in on his leadership or his durability or his work ethic or his character (he scolds teammates who litter or leave a mess), and those are all good things. But here's something we sometimes miss in those conversations.

Taylor Moton is really good at football .

Last year, he was the 19th-ranked tackle in the NFL (out of

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