Kurt Coleman tells Panthers to ‘cease taking part in round’ and rent Steve Wilks

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

Kurt Coleman has seen sufficient.

On Monday night time, the previous Carolina Panthers security implored his former employer to, properly, make use of Steve Wilks as their subsequent full-time head coach. And he’s making no bones about it . . .

Every of Coleman’s three seasons in Carolina got here underneath Wilks’ steerage—who served because the workforce’s assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach from 2015 to 2017. Not so coincidentally, these three years have been a few of the better of Coleman’s profession—as he notched career-highs in mixed tackles (95), tackles for a loss (5), interceptions (seven), passes defensed (9), sacks (1.0) and quarterback hits (two) as a Panther.

The retired defender is simply the most recent in a protracted, lengthy line of present and former gamers to endorse Wilks for the group’s emptiness. Coleman joins the likes of Shaq Thompson, Derrick Brown, Bradley Bozeman, Thomas Davis, Tre Boston and Torrey Smith—simply to call a number of.

By the top of Tuesday, the Panthers may have interviewed nine candidates for the opening—with just one having a longtime residence on “Thieves Ave.”