Panthers trade Dionte Johnson for nothing

When the Panthers traded for Johnson during the offseason, they knew full well about his reputation for being a locker-room diva who wasn’t afraid to throw his quarterbacks under the bus. But they hoped he’d be on his best behavior while playing for a new contract.

And while some in the organization didn’t have an issue with Johnson, he didn’t hide his displeasure during Bryce Young’s slow start and had stopped practicing the past couple of weeks due to various injuries. When Johnson ran a bad route at Washington in Week 7 that resulted in an Andy Dalton interception, Dalton slammed his helmet and yelled when he got to the sideline.

It feels now like that was the beginning of the end for Johnson in Carolina, which agreed to pay down Johnson’s salary down to the minimum and tossed a Baltimore a pick in order to be done with Johnson.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5883242...ers-trade/

No doubt Dan got the best deal he could get. Johnson did not help any with his behavior,  Was becoming a cancer and needed to go.  Give the young guys reps and send a message.  Not going to fret over this one

My problem is why do it a week out from trade deadline ?   Another team , wanting to be a playoff, contender, could have a wide receiver get injuried and been willing to trade for a little more.  There was no need to trade with Baltimore so they could have one more week with Deonte and in all honesty, to get nothing in return.    
I know this is a stretch , but should the Ravens win the Super Bowl,  we'd move up one pick for this trade.  More likely we'll move up 7-15 places.  But an injury to another wide receiver on another contending team might have garnered us more. 

I heard, ( speculation by announcer WFNZ ) ,,  not sure if it's true,,  we might be paying part of his salary to boot.  Not good.