Panthers safety Mike Minter offered this take on Kris Jenkins' absence from minicamp:
"You've got to look at every individual and their situation," he said. "I can't tell Kris he needs to be here because I don't know his situation. I don't know what they did to him personally. Would we like him here? Yeah. Can we make him be here? No. So I always look at it like this -- if a guy wants to be on our football team and be with us, we're here. And he don't, then he walks. Then we're going to move on with somebody or without him.
"I think that's the mindset everybody takes on this football team. But if he comes back, we're going to embrace him and take him back in the fold and keep on like nothing ever happened. So he has an oppootuntiy to take care of his problems and that's cool."
Minter said he wasn't surprised that Jenkins was a no-show on Wednesday.
"Surprised? No, I'm not surprissed by anything," said the 11-year pro. "I've been in this league a long time. When you see the smoke, you know before this camp, you begin to know that certain things are gonna happen, maybe, or maybe not."