HOUSTON — Stop us if you've heard this one before.

A Panthers wide receiver made a great play in practice.

That's been the case for a lot of training camp in a suddenly deep receiving group, but Thursday's joint practice with the Texans had a new and unheralded star.

Brycen Tremayne, of course.

With Jalen Coker out sick at the hotel, Tremayne got some work with the starters and made a play during the late two-minute work.

With 30 seconds left on the clock, and facing a third down from the 44, Bryce Young took the snap, stepped to the left, and loaded up and launched one down the left sideline.

Tremayne had a step on Texans cornerback Kamari Lassiter and hauled it in for a 41-yard gain.

One play later, they were in the end zone.

"Yeah, yeah, he made a great catch versus good coverage," Young said. "Did a great job fighting through on the route, and Brycen is someone who's been super consistent, super steady, super hard worker.

"For someone being so new, we all have that trust and confidence in him by how he carries himself. Have all the confidence in the world that he's going to come down with it."

It helped that Tremayne is 6-foot-4 and 212 pounds, so he already had an edge on a go-ball against the 6-0, 180-pound Lassiter.

But as camp has gone on, Tremayne has begun asserting himself more often.

While he's not a household name among a bunch of first-round picks like Xavier Legette and Tetairoa McMillan and veteran stars such as Adam Thielen and Hunter Renfrow, he could carve a niche for himself here.

Panthers head coach Dave Canales has noted that Tremayne's size makes him a threat in the run game as a blocker, and also on special teams (and they'll likely keep somebody for that role alone).

Tremayne spent the last two years on the Washington practice squad after going undrafted out of Stanford. He signed here in February, but missed a lot of time in OTAs with an injury.

But now that he's back on the field, he's showing he could belong in this group.

When Canales was asked what he had been showing earlier this week, he pointed to his preparation.

"Just being where he's supposed to be," Canales said Monday. "And playing fast, I think that's the biggest thing, is when guys are playing fast, it tells me they know what's going on, that they've been studying, and they feel confident, and that's what we've seen out of him."