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Panthers Extend Frankie Luvu

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I am not excited about it.  I like him as an impact player off the bench and on ST.  I am not convinced he could start week in week out for us.  At 4.5 per season, he has to start and play at least reasonably well or this is not a great contract.

In his four starts last year for us, he had a total of 14 tackles and 6 assists.  That projects to 60 tackles and 26 assists over 17 games.

Those just seem like reserve numbers to me.

 

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Luvu signed a two-year, $9 million contract extension with the Panthers on Thursday, Darin Gantt of the Panthers' official site reports.

Luvu appeared in 16 games during his first season with the Panthers and logged 43 tackles (26 solo), 1.5 sacks, a pass defense, a forced fumble and three fumble recoveries. He'll attempt to build upon his role as a contributor on defense and special teams across the next two years.
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1 hour ago, Waldo said:

4.5 a year for ST/rotation player? We are paying 4 to Riddick to not play here this year so why not waste more money.

Meh, I like the guy as a player for sure but he isn't a starter. Kind of the start I was expecting to the offseason sadly. 

 

I assume this signing means Luvu is going to be a starter now.  

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4 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Good move on the surface. I'll hold off on celebrating it until we see the details. As long as we've given him a market value rotational LB/core STer type contract then good move.

$4.5M per year??!! 🤣

Reminder: We paid Reddick $6M last year and he was signed coming off of a season where he was 5th in the NFL in sacks.

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4 minutes ago, BurnNChinn said:

I agree with this, I like Luvu a lot. But if he only plays like he did last year a little high. Whose spot is he takin defense?

I think this is a good signing.    

Sounds like he got 3m to sign and his salary will be 2m in year 1.  So the cap hit will be 3.5m - not too bad for a ST / Rotational LB.

Year 2 should be just a salary of 4m and cap hit of 5.5.  Cap savings of 4m if cut with 1.5m dead.  Not too damaging.

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2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

$4.5M per year??!! 🤣

Reminder: We paid Reddick $6M last year and he was signed coming off of a season where he was 5th in the NFL in sacks.

Reddick was the exception, not the rule. You're not going to get a premiere pass rusher on a 1-year prove it deal every offseason.

Luvu's contract is also very, very cheap. $4.5M doesn't even make him a top 50 contract hit for LBs.

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1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

$4.5M per year??!! 🤣

Reminder: We paid Reddick $6M last year and he was signed coming off of a season where he was 5th in the NFL in sacks.

And he was the biggest steal of the off-season which is why he will be getting a mega deal making more than 3x that amount per year this off-season by someone. Luvu was an all pro special teams player and will definitely be starting. Out of all of our terrible signings throughout the history of our team, this one does not even register on the scale. It’s a good signing at a more than fair value. 

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