Panthers players will honor meaningful causes on cleats

Dec 12, 2020 at 03:00 PM

Will Bryan

When the Panthers host the Broncos on Sunday, several players will wear custom cleats to honor and raise awareness for different issues that are important to them.

The annual NFL initiative, My Cause My Cleats, promotes league-wide action and engagement from players and fans with worthy causes and organizations that have meaningful connections to players and coaches.

Players do that by wearing custom-designed cleats for one game every season and using their platform to deliver their messages.

Here are the causes Panthers' players will be advocating for this season:

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Player	Cause	Organization
Robby Anderson	Single Moms
Derrick Brown	Military Appreciation	USAA
Dennis Daley	Social Justice	Color of Change
Corn Elder	Social Justice	City Year
Myles Hartsfield	Diabetes
Tyler Larsen	Autism Awareness	The Autism Community in Action (TACA)
Christian McCaffrey	Military Appreciation	Christian McCaffrey Foundation
Aaron Monteiro	Addiction Recovery	Community Matters Cafe
Russell Okung	Children's Health	Children's Health Defense
Troy Pride Jr.	Civil Liberties	ACLU
Michael Schofield	Cancer	Schofield Family Foundation
Ian Thomas	Autism, Domestic Violence	Autism Charlotte, KayDay Foundation
Shaq Thompson	Dental Health	Thompson Legacy Fund
Colin Thompson		Athletes Helping Athletes
Tahir Whitehead	Recreation and Education	Training Recreation Education Center
Brandon Zylstra	Social Injustice	One Love

This season, a number of players partnered with Charlotte is Creative, collaborating with a number of the local artists who painted the Black Lives Matter mural in Uptown Charlotte. These artists created their own artistic renditions of the cause for Panthers' players on their cleats.

They included Chad Cartwright (Tyler Larsen), DeNeer Davis (Michael Schofield, Brandon Zylstra), Lo'Vonia Parks (Corn Elder), Marcus Kiser (Aaron Monteiro), Frankie Zombie (Tahir Whitehead) and Destiny Wilson (Colin Thompson).