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If he is that cheap I kindof wish we would have done a 3 or even 2 year deal. But this is a great signing

i heard around $10M.

We draft future car salesmen with our 7th rounders.

Originally a 7th round pick. Became a starter and never was beaten out for the job.

The most interesting thing to me in all this. Walker was a 7th round pick. Maybe we shouldn't have waited 4 years to draft another OT.

0.35 fewer pressures a game is a big deal when you're only dropping back to throw deep once

The most Panthers draft thing ever would be selecting (wasting) a pick on an OL who they plan to sit for a year. If you draft a guy in the first round, he better impact the team immediately.

Fortunately we don't have a franchise QB to protect, so we can get away with a stopgap LT.

protect the who? be wary of young players the Packers let walk, especially on offense

Nijam was never the solution, even before he retired. You dont march a career backup out there to be your starting LT to protect your franchise

Nijam was never the solution, even before he retired. You dont march a career backup out there to be your starting LT to protect your franchise

Man what a get this late into FA Walker gave up 6 LESS pressures than Ekwonu while playing 22 more pass blocking snaps

I’m still really interested in drafting an LT in the first round if the right one is there. Perfect scenario to allow to sit and learn for a bit. That’s how you get a starter for 10-15 years.

Good signing, as something had to be done about left tackle. It's hard not to think that Nijam was going to be most of the solution. That would not have gone well. We absolutely need to start drafting some offensive line though and get some homegrown talent.

https://x.com/mike_e_kaye/status/2032563128127377564?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

https://x.com/dp_nfl/status/2032560586198745350?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

https://x.com/tejfbanalytics/status/2032562269377241541?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA the panthers have added 3 of CBS sports’ top 20 free agents in jaelan phillips, devin lloyd and rasheed walker. all of those players fit an area of need and inspire optimism in their respective units. awesome job by their front office

Great move

Canales opened the door to all this with how he managed the RB carries. Then you've got some of our own fans goading him for whatever reason like we paid him a ton of money. These folks should have kept that same energy for other backs who were making record salaries while riding the bench.

Dan is truly cooking this off-season. Starter level player, we can truly go BPA now.....I haven't been this exited about the future of this team in a long time

Bill Barnwell article this morning: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48185973/2026-nfl-free-agency-best-team-fits-top-players-available-barnwell

Rasheed Walker, OT Editor's note: Walker signed with the Panthers on Friday afternoon. Why is he still available? Likely the contract size. Young left tackles earned massive deals in free agency last season. Jaylon Moore, the backup to Trent Williams in San Francisco, signed a two-year, $30 million contract to join the Chiefs. Dan Moore Jr., a below-average starter in Pittsburgh, inked a four-year, $82 million pact with the Titans. The latter Moore allowed the most sacks in the league in 2024 (16.5), per NFL Next Gen Stats, then finished second behind Stone Forsythe in 2025 (13.5 sacks). Walker, a three-year starter in Green Bay, was the latest young left tackle to hit the market. He is coming from a better offense and hasn't missed a game since taking over as the starter on Jordan Love's blind side in 2023. At 26, Walker had every right to expect that he would earn one of the largest deals in free agency. My expectation was that his deal could come in as high as $25 million per season, and ESPN's Seth Walder projected Walker's new contract to average $21.8 million per year. Talking to people in and around the league about Walker before free agency, though, there wasn't a real excitement about an opportunity that should have been very appealing on paper. Was it a red flag that the Packers were letting a young player at a critical position walk out the door without really pushing too hard to re-sign him? Were the two Moore contracts from 2024 more of an outlier than a true indicator of what teams were willing to pay for young tackles? Some teams with left tackle openings elected to head in a different direction. The Bears and Panthers will need left tackles to open 2026 after their incumbents (Ozzy Trapilo and Ikem Ekwonu, respectively) tore their patellar tendons in January. They both opted for short-term solutions, as the Bears re-signed Braxton Jones and the Panthers added Forsythe. Teams that might have signed a left tackle and moved their incumbents to the right side, such as the Browns and Texans, instead chose to acquire right tackles. Walker might also be heading for a short-term deal. ESPN's Adam Schefter spoke with ESPN Milwaukee earlier this week and suggested that Walker might need to settle for a one-year deal before hitting free agency again in 2027. It looks like the significant market that many anticipated for Walker -- myself included -- never really materialized.

I'm not sure of our OL coach, or his pedigree, but I agree with this. I'm a huge believer in finding guys who are "good enough" in the "non skill" positions and then coaching them up. Yes we pay these players millions, but we also pay our coaches millions. We've band-aided the LT position it appears. Now up to Dave Canales and his coaches to design an offense that can succeed. That's why we hired him - he was an "offensive genius". Alot of this rides on Bryce, but after watching what Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones did with the right system, it's time for Canales to put up or get out. Especially in this division, which is by far the weakest in the NFL.

I think we just had the best FA class in the NFL for 2026. Hang the banner!

Agreed.