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Months of NFL mock draft speculation is usually rendered moot about 15 minutes into any given draft, when the trades start flying. Most mocks lock teams into their original draft location, possibly including one or, at most, two major trades to shake up the board. That’s not the case at all in real life, however.

Last year, nine first-round picks were made by teams that didn’t originally have the pick in question, including four of the top 10 picks. The year before, it was 11. It’s simply unrealistic to assume everyone will sit in neat-like and make their selections in the order prescribed to them.

The Carolina Panthers haven’t been too busy on draft day with trades in recent history. Last year, they made only one deal, moving up in the fifth round to select cornerback Bene Benwikere at the expense of a seventh-round pick. The year before that, they made zero draft-day trades of any kind. You have to go back to 2010 and the reign of much-maligned general manager Marty Hurney. Panthers fans can be excused for not wanting to remember Hurney’s drafts.

Is it likely that the Panthers will be busier this year during draft day? Not particularly.

They only have two extra draft picks thanks to compensatory selections, and those are untradeable. They don’t have a particularly enticing pick or position in the first round that would cause other teams to want to shoot up to their selection. Combined with general manager Dave Gettleman’s general draft strategy, you don’t get the sense that the Panthers are planning a flurry of activity.

However, just because it would be out of character doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Nor does it mean that there aren’t some potentially great moves the Panthers could make. Let’s take a look at some realistic trades the Panthers could make over the three days of the 2015 NFL draft—and a look at a few less realistic, more dramatic ones to boot.