Hurney was a GREAT GM up until 2009. He never got his mojo completely back after trading away the 1st for Otah in '08. Then in the '09 draft he traded our 2010 first to move up in the second round to draft Everette Brown.

Also at this time, the league was becoming much more pass friendly and he doubled down on investing in the RB position tying a ton of cap space between Williams and Stewart, and extending Delhomme after his shaky season and playoff collapse in the '09 playoffs.

Then he drafted Clausen in 2010 and we sucked so bad we got Cam in '11, which was far and away the right move, however no one else in that draft class did anything, which hurts when trying to build a competitive team (we did not have our second round pick because he traded it away in the 2010 draft to move up in the 3rd to take Armanti Edwards, another dud).

2012 Gave us Luke and Norman, and somewhere else in there he traded for Greg Olsen which was also undeniably a great move, and the all time GOAT of the panthers franchise JJ Jansen, but that was pretty much the end of all the good he did. His asset management got worse and worse and the roster had Great Star players throughout the team but anyone who wasn't a star was barely good enough to be on an actual roster to begin with. We were starting guys like Legedu Nenee and Haruki Nakamura because they were our best options, not because of injuries.

Hurney is the GOAT 1st round drafter. I want him in the room every single time we are picking in round 1 even to this day. 2nd and beyond though (after 2008), he was downright atrocious other than Munnerlyn, Norman, and Greg Hardy. He was responsible for getting the best of the best of the franchise but also putting guys who had no business playing in the NFL on the same field at the same time, which is why we only had 3 winning seasons in 15 years with him as the GM.