The NFL has released it’s offseason workout program dates and the Carolina Panthers find themselves starting dead last out of 32 teams.

First Day: April 25

OTA Offseason Workouts: May 24-26, May 31, June 1-2, June 6-9

Mandatory Minicamp: June 14-16#Panthers last to start — ThePanthersWire (@ThePanthersWire) April 1, 2016

Each franchise’s nine-week offseason program is conducted in three phases per Article 21 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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Phase One

Limited to only strength and conditioning as well as physical rehabilitation for those players that are injured.

Phase Two

On-field workouts may include individual player instructions and drills as well as team practices. However, there can not be any live contact or team offense vs. team defense drills.

This is typically where we get our first real chance to see how the newest Panthers players look and see who came in shape or those that still have a little more work to do before training camp.

Phase Three

Teams can conduct a total of 10 days of organized team practice activities (OTAs). No live contact is permitted yet again, but 7-on-7, 9-on-9, and 11-on-11 drills are allowed.

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The Carolina Panthers get their first day set back a week after most other teams, and find themselves starting last. Before you get into an uproar though, remember that head coach Ron Rivera wanted to start things a little further behind in an effort to let his players relax and recoup from a long season that ended in Super Bowl 50.

“The whole idea is that we’ve had five extra weeks of work, our young guys have gotten five more weeks that they normally wouldn’t have gotten, or may not have gotten. So that I think is important,” Rivera said at his end of season press conference.