CHARLOTTE — It's fairly appropriate that the Panthers are going to start their eighth combination of offensive linemen in 10 games this week, and that it will include Austin Corbett at right guard, which a lot of people consider his natural position.

Of course, he's an offensive lineman, so there's nothing natural about his journey to that destination.

Asked this week when he settled at that spot, and Corbett just laughed.

"Never, really," he said.

But in the do-whatever-it-takes world of playing offensive line in the NFL, that's where he's gravitated to, even though he started at center again last week.

Of his 71 NFL starts in nine seasons, 54 of them have come at right guard. (Of the other 17, eight have come at left guard, eight at center, and one is listed as tackle. "I've never

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