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DT · Carolina Panthers · week 6 vs Philadelphia Eagles · Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET

Tershawn Wharton

  • ROLE in the rotation
  • EXP 6 seasons
  • AGE 25-28
  • DEPTH RDE1

As of week 6, Tershawn Wharton was a DE for CAR, age 28.2, 6 seasons of experience. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart. Before 2026 he played 95 games (postseason included) over 6 seasons. His injury history held 7 episodes (knee 4, hamstring 2, toe 1), 4 of them reaching OUT, 4 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a hamstring injury in 2025 week 19.

The full read

How our call moved this week

  • our call, P(plays)
  • club report (public)

75% LIKELY → 76% LIKELY

Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.

In short

Tershawn Wharton is in the rotation at right defensive end for CAR — 48% of the snaps in his best week of 1. He has a neck injury. This week he practised in full every day the report covers. His team has listed him Questionable.

The reader concurs · grade B

Wharton is not on the active roster: his practice window was only opened the week of 12 Oct (P1) and as of Friday he remained one of 'the three players in their practice windows who haven't been activated yet' (P5, P6), so his full practices are a practice-axis fact that does not make him eligible to dress. Canales drew an explicit line between the three, expressing 'real confidence Trevor will be up' while reserving judgment on Moton and Wharton (P4). The only passage suggesting he suits up is an opposing-team blog's guess — 'Seems like they're going to suit up' (P2) — which is an aggregator inference and is outranked by the club's own page and the head coach's words (P4, P5). It would need to know: Carolina's 17 Oct transaction wire: was Wharton formally activated from reserve to the 53-man roster before the Sunday deadline?; Whether a 53-man roster spot was cleared on 16-17 Oct (release, IR placement, or waiver) to accommodate an activation; The official CAR vs PHI Sunday inactives list; Any Canales or GM remark after Friday specifically naming Wharton's activation date or intent to use the remaining weeks of the 21-day window

What the read cites

What was reportedSource
1“The team will also open the practice windows for Taylor Moton and Tershawn Wharton, giving them three weeks to practice in advance of a potential return.”Carolina Panthers · 2026-10-12
2“the three players in their practice windows who haven't been activated yet — Trevor Etienne (ankle), Taylor Moton (lungs, blood clot) and Tershawn Wharton (neck)”Carolina Panthers · 2026-10-16
3“While Canales said they intended to activate running back Trevor Etienne from injured reserve, he reserved judgment on Taylor Moton and Tershawn Wharton.”Carolina Panthers · 2026-10-16
4“So of the three guys, I can say with real confidence Trevor will be up.”Carolina Panthers · 2026-10-16
5“Ditto for Wharton and Etienne. Seems like they're going to suit up.”Bleeding Green Nation · 2026-10-16
6“the three players whose window to practice to be activated was opened this week — Taylor Moton (lungs, blood clot), Tershawn Wharton (neck), and Trevor Etienne (ankle)”Carolina Panthers · 2026-10-15
5versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player

How the call moved

LIKELY since Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET · 78 h before kickoff · 43 h before the club. Biggest move: 75% → 76%, Thu Oct 15 · 5:01 PM ET to Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET, with no club report in between.

His team's word: Questionable

This is the TEAM'S OWN ANNOUNCEMENT, not a reading of ours. His team filed him on the injury report and we are restating it so the record is complete. There is nothing early about repeating an announcement — what we say ahead of one is on the week's page. Source: his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended).

Practice this week

FriThuWed
FPdated Fri Oct 16FPdated Fri Oct 16FPdated Fri Oct 16

Shape of the week: steady. Only days the publisher dated are shown; a day we could not date is left out until the nightly sweep stamps it. The shape is a fact, not a forecast.

Head start

  • His club's word
  • Kickoff

Stats, with ranges

fewer than 2 games this season

Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share

  1. 48%wk 6

Missed while on the injury report

SeasonWeeks on the reportMissed while listed
202610

Only the weeks he was on the injury report with a recorded result — not every game of his career.

Medical history

WhenInjuryWeeks on a reportWorst status
2026 · wk 6neck1Questionable
2025 · wk 15hamstring5Out
2025 · wk 12knee1—
2025 · wk 5toe3Out
2025 · wk 2hamstring3Out
2024 · wk 10knee1Questionable
2023 · wk 1knee2—
2022 · wk 6knee1Out

Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.

Injury history by season · 8 episodes · 17 weeks on a report · same site more than once: knee ×4

  • ruled out
  • questionable
  • listed, and played

Each bar is one episode: the week it began and how many weeks he was on a report, coloured by the worst status.

Our past calls vs what happened

Wk 6PLAY 75% ✓ rightbefore his team said anything; played

Season on him: 1 of 1 graded call of ours right. Graded by the record: right or a miss against whether he played. A week we did not call, or his club's own word, is not graded.

The rest of his team's report this week

PlayerPosPracticeWhose wordCallChance he playsBand
Darren WallerTEFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Taylor MotonTFULLteam's wordQuestionable
Mike JacksonCBUNKteam's word—
AJ DillonRBDNPteam's wordOut
Damien LewisGFULLteam's wordQuestionable
Jaelan PhillipsLBFULLteam's wordQuestionable
Jaycee HornCBUNKteam's word—
Brady ChristensenOTUNKteam's word—
Tommy TrembleTEFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Ikem EkwonuOTUNKteam's word—
Thomas IncoomLBFULLoursPLAY82%LIKELY
Bryce YoungQBFULLoursPLAY93%EXPECTED
Xavier LegetteWRUNKteam's word—
Jonathon BrooksRBUNKteam's word—
Ja'Tavion SandersTEUNKteam's word—
Jalen CokerWRFULLoursPLAY95%EXPECTED
Cam JacksonDTUNKteam's word—
Bam Martin-ScottLBUNKteam's word—
TeRah EdwardsDTUNKteam's word—
Torricelli Simpkins IIIGUNKteam's word—
Trevor EtienneRBFULLteam's wordQuestionable
Nic ScourtonLBUNKteam's word—
Monroe FreelingTLTDteam's wordDoubtful
Chris Brazzell IIWRUNKteam's word—
Albert ReeseOTUNKteam's word—
Haynes KingQBUNKteam's word—

The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.

The data behind this page — the timeline in words, every call and week on record, about him, and what this page does not show

Profile — as of week 6

RoleDE1
Season2026 · no games on file through wk 5
Career6 seasons · 95 games before 2026
Injuries7 episodes · last: hamstring, 2025 wk 19
Bioage 28.2 · 6 seasons' experience

Where the profile comes from

Built from: honors.db; nflverse injuries_2026.csv; medical.db; nflverse players.csv; profile.db; nflverse roster_2026.csv; nflverse roster_weekly_2026.csv; nflverse snap_counts_2026.csv; nflverse stats_player_week_2026.csv. Every number in it is one those sources hold.

nflverse injuries_2026.csv

About him

About himAs the record holds it
His rolein the rotation at right defensive end — 48% of the snaps in his best week of 1
Listed on the depth chartfirst at right defensive end
Last weekHe did not dress last week
Snaps played48% a week on average over 1 week, 48% at his highest, 10% on special teams
Build6 ft 1 in · 280 lb
CollegeMissouri-Rolla
Draftedundrafted
Age25-28 at the season's start
Experience6 seasons

When this call was made, and when the world knew

  1. Team reportHis team listed him Questionable.
  2. PublicHis team's word was public as soon as it was filed.
  3. KickoffKickoff.

How our call moved, earliest first

WhenLeadCallChance he playsBandOn what
Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET78 hPLAY75%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 12:01 PM ET73 hPLAY75%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 5:01 PM ET68 hPLAY75%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET54 hPLAY76%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 12:01 PM ET49 hPLAY76%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET45 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET44 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET44 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET41 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET30 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET25 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET20 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET6 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 18 · 7:30 AM ET6 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET1 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)

5 calls this week, flipping between PLAY and SIT 1 time. Each lead time is the one that call actually had when it was written — never recounted from now. A call that changes is the record working: new evidence arrived and we said so, in public, before the game.

We went and found out more

Rank 3 (listed third or deeper, or not listed), 5 documents deep, because: llm_dissents. Fetched 5 of 5.

His record this season

WkPracticeChance he playsCallSourcePlayed
6FULL75%PLAYbefore his team said anythingyes

A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.