2026 Panthers Salary Cap

[bababoey]

20 hours ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Its the timing. Icky needs his extension. Also, end of year 3 is when most of the recent 1st round QBs are asking for their extensions. Bryce could very well ask for his. Those 2 signings alone will use our entire cap and more if we go that direction. Before the season we had no way to know how Bryce was going to perform, but you still have to anticipate the likelihood of an extension request.

If Icky gets an extention it will probabky save us 10 million or so.  His cap hit is 17 million next year and if signs an extention it probably goes down to 6 or 7.  Now thats just for next year, after that it will probably be like 20 or so a year.

[Jackie Lee]

On 12/31/2025 at 1:42 PM, LinvilleGorge said:

QB on a rookie contract is a massive salary cap advantage. 

Sounds like we should keep on that and draft another one

[SmokinwithWilly]

1 hour ago, PleaseCutStewart said:

Lol Bryce isn't getting an extension. We might do his 5th year option to prepare our new QB, but Bryce won't be starting for us beyond his option year (if we pick it up)

Nobody knew what he would get prior to this year’s performance. If he had come out with 4500 yards and 35 tds, a 50m AAV extension could easily be on the table at the end of this season. To be honest we still don’t know and Tepper is a wild card. We saved some cap space extending Moton, but it wasn’t wholly necessary at the time.