CHARLOTTE — One of the best things Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero sees every day is Derrick Brown .

One of the better things is that it looks so familiar.

Evero said Thursday that his defensive captain looked through the first three games like the same Pro Bowl-level player he was in 2023, before last year's knee injury that limited him to one game.

"It looks about the same. I mean, just, obviously a strong, strong, strong, run defender," Evero said, and that's three "strongs" if you're counting. "He's hard to block, singled up, and he makes a lot of impact plays in the run game. He's been hitting the quarterback, and so he's really done a really good job up to this point.

"But like all of us, you know, we know we need to coach better in a lot of instances. We need to pla

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