$20 mill in cap space next year AFTER Cam/Luke signed.

[PanthersUnited]

So, forgive me because I made a thread a couple weeks ago asking how we only have 9 million in cap space, well I am embarrassed to admit that I was wrong. Going back to "over the cap" website, the 9 million figure came from the dead money column and by mistake I read that as though it was our cap space.

I went and looked today and going into next season we will have 20 plus million in cap space and that's after our two franchise players are locked up. 

Will next year be the year we can finally be the kids that get the Xbox one/PS4 for Christmas when it comes to Free Agency as opposed to the bundled PS3 with a copy of Madden that is three years old?! Let's hope we can finally be players in FA now with both the money and the piece of mind knowing our two franchise players are locked up for the future. 

[Dex]

How many players do we have signed so far next season? Link?

[Cary Kollins]

Maybe we can finally sign Hakeem Nicks next season.

[KSpan]

Gettleman won't overpay (market value of players always to be debated) for anyone, but the odds of a higher-profile signing definitely go way up.  Depending on how the team performs this year (e.g. the WRs really stepping up, CBs regressing, etc), I think we could definitely see a bigger name acquired at a position of need.

[PandaPancake]

Maybe we can finally sign Hakeem Nicks next season.

And Hardy

[PanthersUnited]

Gentleman won't overpay (market value of players always to be debated) for anyone, but the odds of a higher-profile signing definitely go way up.  Depending on how the team performs this year (e.g. the WRs really stepping up, CBs regressing, etc), I think we could definitely see a bigger name acquired at a position of need.

Exactly. I don't expect Gman to go full Suh and sign a guy to 100 mill plus but a Torrey Smith type signing is reasonable 

[ncsu12engr]

Gettleman does not seem like the type of guy to overpay for a free agent, and the ones worth paying get way overpaid. We will use that money to resign Norman and others that are on the last year of their contract.

[RelaxImaPro]

We're not going to be "players" in free agency next year either.  We've still got quite a handful of guys we need to extend.

[PantherWake]

Just enough money for Har..........i'll see myself out

[Bartin]

Luke's new deal hasn't been put up on OverTheCap yet since the structure hasn't been released so we don't actually know what the cap space for next year will be.

 

http://overthecap.com/player/luke-kuechly/1184/

[L-TownCat]

2 informative threads in 2 days.

What sorcery is this?

[CRA]

Maybe we can finally sign Hakeem Nicks next season.

so Gettlemen is going to go shopping at Super K-mart instead of the regular K-mart? 

 

[CarolinaNCSU]

Would be lovely if Alshon didn't want to stay in Chicago and Getts wanted to throw a little money at someone. But a more likely candidate would be a Brian Quick or someone similar. Could also be a few decent OTs out there should Oher not work out. 

 

I don't expect to go sign AJ Green...but I do think we see our first "significant" signing. 

[KB_fan]

Looks like we have 20 players who would be free agents after this year:

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/carolina-panthers/

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/contracts/

Roman Harper (2014-2015)	SS	32	5	$10,625,000	2016
Mike Tolbert (2012-2015)	FB	29	4	$10,000,000	2016
Amini Silatolu (2012-2015)	G	26	4	$4,937,104	2016
J.J. Jansen (2012-2015)	LS	29	4	$3,605,000	2016
Frank Alexander (2012-2015)	DE	25	4	$2,570,252	2016
Josh Norman (2012-2015)	CB	27	4	$2,299,000	2016
Brad Nortman (2012-2015)	P	25	4	$2,178,680	2016
Charles Tillman (2015-2015)	CB	34	1	$2,000,000	2016
Richie Brockel (2014-2015)	TE	29	2	$1,610,000	2016
Wes Horton (2013-2015)	DE	25	3	$1,495,000	2016
Brandon Williams (2013-2015)	TE	27	3	$1,485,000	2016
Colin Cole (2015-2015)	DT	35	1	$1,050,000	2016
Mike Remmers (2014-2015)	RT	26	2	$1,050,000	2016
Joe Webb (2015-2015)	QB	28	1	$825,000	2016
Chris Scott (2015-2015)	G	28	1	$825,000	2016
Tyronne Green (2015-2015)	G	29	1	$745,000	2016
Stephen Hill (2015-2015)	WR	24	1	$594,500	2016
Ben Jacobs (2015-2015)	ILB	27	1	$585,000	2016
Davonte Wallace (2015-2015)	T	23	1	$435,000	2016
Kyle Love (2014-2015)	DT	28	2	$1,475,000	2016