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This, and also ''how'' the 1st year of the deal actually pays. As an example, Phillips' first year is 9M. Whereas in 27, and beyond, the cap hit is much higher at 30M+. However, future restructures / extensions can address the new, higher cap hits if needed. A'Shawn Robinson was also released, and that created 10M in space. Moving on from Andy (eventually), I believe, will also add another 4M eventually.

Restructured contracts like Brown's

I don't understand how they got this cap to spend on free agents. Can someone explain it? I though we only had 20 million and we still have to pay the rookies.

Your math is off there. 63 games x 16.5 TOI = ~1000 minutes total ice time. 53 games x 9 TOI = ~500 minutes total ice time. Double the ice time, double the production. Janky might be slightly more productive on the year. However, if we take this discussion outside of that fancy Dyson vacuum, you could factor in things like positional changes, age, progression or experience. Stank started the season learning a completely new position in his 2nd full NHL season. He was hot garbage to begin and has gotten consistently better ever since. Jank is the same player now, that he was in October. You absolutely cannot say the same for Logan. And, if you think that Jankowski, currently, is a better 2C for this team than Stankoven, then I have some authentic Panthers SB50 Championship Rings to sell you.

The first big piece of news happened early in the day on the West Coast for one of the targets, the next happened after a transatlantic flight with a stop in Charlotte got the other one back to Florida after dark. The day really got going when some of them were in the shower, or working out — not expecting it to happen so fast. The next big piece of news happened while some of them were in bed because they're responsible, or pacing the hallway outside the room where it happened like an expectant father in a black-and-white movie, or sitting on the floor, or crashing on any couch they could find. By the end of a workday that was pushing 17 hours for some of them, the Panthers finally (or again) fell asleep with two priority free agents, pass-rusher Jaelan Phillips and linebacker Devin Lloyd, the targeted strikes they dreamed about but weren't sure they could actually land. https://www.panthers.com/news/gradually-then-suddenly-panthers-moved-quickly-and-patiently-to-land-their-top-free-agent-targets-jaelan-phillips-devin-lloyd

A behind-the-scenes look at the way the Panthers navigated free agency last week to agree to deals with Jaelan Phillips and Devin Lloyd during a very busy but very long first day of the negotiating period. By Darin GanttMar 16, 2026

I want Kayden McDonald

Fs, time for the panthers to get modernized in the nfl. matter of fact anything defense related I’m all for. Been beating the drum about how close the defense is to elite, so a dt, a fs, wlb, cb are all green lights for me. Fs is long over due for an investment

Honestly he is about 50/50 to make the roster this year. Draft will be big if a early 1-3 pick is used on DL, that would drop his odds to like 20%.

He has no upper body. He severely needs the weight room. Being naturally big won’t get the job done at this level

Same here. Guess Martin couldn't get more on the market. Thought for sure we'd go UDFA punter like we did with kicker last year

App state boy!

Those two, the 9-1 win over Florida. The Utah comeback. Beating Colorado in a shootout to start the year. The 2-1 Buffalo win. Or the asswhooping of Dallas. Had some good ones this year.

its a 2 yr deal and I think its the going rate for bottom 1/3 of punter contracts. My members is he did pretty good for inside 20 and overall better than the QB ram dude.... I was about to start looking at the rookie punters, no lie... A couple punter signed new highest deal around 4 years 14 million this FA...

You simply cannot trust a true rookie FS. He has no clue at the levels of confusion and the level of athletes he is going against. Hed need to study non-stop in order to not be a total spaz. Its just one of weird spots.

great points. I want the FS too, but OT is where I'm hoping we'll find our value in the first. Getting Walker at 10 mill for one year should raise some dadgum eyebrows....nobody wanted to pay more? I fear I'm forever scarred at the years we went without Jordan Gross after he retired. It was like they just didn't make any LTs for 6 years that came anywhere near our draft position. If one is there around 19, I feel we need to take him. We can't just go into next year hoping a good LT will fall to us. We've seen that before and it wasn't pretty. And one injury to Walker or Moton, and we are looking scary bad in Bryce's most important prove it season.

I have started doing my research on these draft picks and I like this guy. But I'm am iffy on taking a TE in the first if isnt a flat out generational guy more importantly on this team where it's questionable we get the necessary impact out of him. I say if a top defensive guy at their position falls to 19th you jump on it and push this defense to an elite unit. The offense will do their part.

fans view “box safety” with the same disdain they have when they hear “game manager” QB. but there’s a reason most 1st round safeties are “box safeties”-it’s a much longer list of requisite skills to be a good box safety than it is to be a guy whose only real responsibility is to not get beat over the top. Fans crave the ed reed type and as someone who has never been able to enjoy this franchise having a guy like that, I get the enthusiasm-but I’m not really prepared to spend a first round pick on a free safety. If it happens it’ll be fun, it’ll address a need with a good player and that’s well and good. But those guys end up walking after their first contract because their pedigree usually outpaces what their teams feel like they’re adding to their overall win total.

Its criminal that the upcoming season is mainly in the tiny hands of BY. I still member the time I did a full turn, if you member his first off-season from that Panthers all-time worst team....... Answering questions at his first presser, he goes along the lines " I didn't do nothing, no weight room or throwing" " I needed to get away". I was fully out with him, the guy didn't even try to improve his football mind, body, strength, in the biggest joke of panther football. I could not believe it, what a leader or dare say "point guard"(lols @ NBA point guards as a ref)

I view FS almost as the NT of the secondary. Oftentimes the true measure of his impact isn't necessarily in the plays that he makes but what he allows you to do with the rest of your defense to allow them to make plays. When you have that elite true sideline to sideline FS safety blanket over the top of the defense it allows you to be a lot more aggressive with everyone else. Where as when you have a Nick Scott as your last line of defense you gotta be mindful to not have to rely too heavily on that.

He was not a weak link.

thats fair. I was beginning to think rookie punter was in the plans

Sam Martin CARPunter#6 Panthers re-signed P Sam Martin to a two-year contract. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports Martin’s deal is up to $5 million. Martin joined the Panthers last season on a one-year deal and wound up booting 56 punts for an average of 47.2 yards per punt. Martin is a 13-year vet of the league who has spent time with four different franchises. He landed a career-best 48.2 percent of his kicks inside his opponent’s 20-yard line last season.