page_title: List of Carolina Panthers first-round draft picks
section_title: Player selections
hierarchical_section_title: List of Carolina Panthers first-round draft picks / Player selections
caption_attribution_description: English: Carolina Panthers players (2008 roster) on Sideline
context_page_description: The Carolina Panthers joined the National Football League in 1995 as the league's 29th franchise. Their first ever selection was Kerry Collins, a quarterback from Penn State, in the 1995 NFL Draft. The team's most recent first-round selection was Brian Burns, an edge rusher from Florida State University, in the 2019 NFL Draft.
  Every year during April, each NFL franchise seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft officially known as "the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting" but more commonly known as the NFL Draft. Teams are ranked in inverse order based on the previous season's record, with the worst record picking first, and the second worst picking second and so on. The two exceptions to this order are made for teams that appeared in the previous Super Bowl; the Super Bowl champion always picks 32nd, and the Super Bowl loser always picks 31st. Teams have the option of trading away their picks to other teams for different picks, players, cash, or a combination thereof. Thus, it is not uncommon for a team's actual draft pick to differ from their assigned draft pick, or for a team to have extra or no draft picks in any round due to these trades.
caption: Julius Peppers was selected second overall in 2002, and was named to four All-Pro teams.
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