They still need at least another win (with Seattle here next week before the finale at Tampa Bay), but considering where this team was two years ago, that’s an incredible accomplishment regardless.
They did it with a 48-yard field goal from Ryan Fitzgerald with 2:20 left, but that left the defense to make a play.
And a week after making the wrong kind, Lathan Ransom did.
The rookie safety picked off Baker Mayfield with 41 seconds left, allowing the Panthers to close it out and move to 8-7 on the season (the most they’ve won in a year since 2017). It was redemption after his late penalty last week against the Saints, and triggered a party.
