Curious to see how Marcus Monk looks catching passes in a Carolina Panthers jersey?

  If so, then you’ve come to the right place. If not, sorry about that. We’ll find a way to make it up to you.

  Anyway, I was messing around on the Internet when I stumbled across a small post on the Panthers’ official Web site about the former Arkansas wide receiver. In case you missed it, Carolina signed Monk as a free agent after the NFL Draft in late April.

  Here is what was written about Monk on panthers.com on May 29 and the photos that accompanied the small blurb on him. (Maybe Monk will have a longer stay in Carolina than he did with the Chicago Bears and New York Giants last year).

  EVERY TIME I SEE wide receiver Marcus Monk, it seems as though he’s reaching up to grab a pass, using every inch of his 6-foot-4 frame and his prodigious wingspan. His frame is that of a basketball player — appropriate, since he played a few games at Arkansas this past winter — and he figures that if he’s got the size, he might as well use it to the hilt.

  ”I try to use it to my advantage by catching the ball at the highest point,” Monk said.

  Monk was one of the players Carolina signed in the days after the draft, but he isn’t a rookie; he was a seventh-round pick of the Bears last year and spent a week on the practice squad before returning to Arkansas. He was able to latch on with the Razorbacks’ hoops team because his professional experience wasn’t in that sport, so he used it to stay in shape while finishing courses for one bachelor’s degree and taking classes toward another.