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My general response: Most Carolina fans have mixed feelings about Munnerlyn. He played great in 2007 but didn’t meet expectations last year. Although athletically gifted, he would occasionally have mental lapses in coverage and get beaten by players that he should have been able to hang with.

In response to your questions:

1. Take a look at Munnerlyn’s statements here. Munnerlyn had more success in man-to-man schemes under former DC Ty Nix in 2007. However, some of Captain’s statements—he says people didn’t throw to him and that he just didn’t have chances to make big plays—in this article should be taken with a grain of salt. Munnerlyn did get crossed up and beaten from time to time in 2008.

2. I’m not sure but I would imagine so. Munnerlyn is fast and has a nice vertical, so he can make up for his height deficiencies to some degree. However, he would be a liability when defending jump balls and in other situations where big receivers take advantage of smaller players.

3. As I said at the top, I think he makes mental mistakes from time to time.

4. If I remember correctly, he missed a weight-training session. You should probably know that Spurrier has called him out for lack of effort once or twice.

5. He has shown some potential returning kickoffs and punts. He could find his place in the NFL doing this. In the Kentucky game btcoop71 is referring to, he both returned a blocked FG and took a kickoff 84 yards. That’s his special teams career highlight, but he’s done good things in other games as well.

6. Yes.

I know some of this sounds negative, but the guy kind of left a bad taste in my mouth after he had a subpar 2008 and then decided to leave Carolina early to barely get drafted. I do think he has potential and hope he works out for you guys.

Expect for when you play the Saints. :-)