According to Person we're keeping Williams...

[KissMyConverse]

http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/

Lets see how they work this out.

[Gabeking]

Cue the whiners

[Gucci Mane]

GREAT NEWS!! Fugg the haters

[Cape Fear Cat]

Yay! I hope this pans out. I understand the realities of the cap, but I really, really like having both Deangelo and Stewart int he backfield together. :thumbsu:

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Thats excellent if we can find a way to accomodate both contracts. Wonderful news.

[KissMyConverse]

He says they feel they can keep him without restructuring, although that isn't ruled out. I am just really interested in seeing what we do over the next 3 weeks.

[Gucci Mane]

Person said they may not even have to restructure williams

He just said on twitter that panthers are cutting gamble too! i guess we knew that though

[CRA]

awesome.....

We had the highest paid backfield in the NFL last year and they were one of the least productive. Brilliant!

I look forward to them standing on the sideline watching Cam and very average players thrust into key everydown positions.

[pantherclaw]

Judging our backfield purely on last season is idiotic.

[SteveSmithTD89]

If it's through restructure I'm going to be thoroughly upset. Enough pushing off the problem. One more year because you believe the team is in win now mode? Fine.

[pantherclaw]

This news doesn't surprise me.

It is good news.

[panther4life]

awesome.....

We had the highest paid backfield in the NFL last year and they were one of the least productive. Brilliant!

I look forward to them standing on the sideline watching Cam and very average players thrust into key everydown positions.

Deangelo is the best back on the team. If we cut him this year the cap hit will still equate to us having one of the highest backfields in the NFL.

It is literally cheaper to keep D-will than cut him. 9.6 million immediate cap for cutting him or we can keep him for 8.2 million. Not that hard of a decision.

If we did a June 1st cut and spread the 9.6 over 2 years then we only save 3.4 million this year but carry over dead weight of 4.6 million next year.

Let him play this year and then we can have more flexibility to cut him(immediate savings of 3.8 million in 2014 without doing it as June 1st cut or have even more flexiblity to get him to restrucuture assuming its not done this year.

[CPF4LIFE]

Good move, keeping D Will is gonna be essential in making the playoffs letting him go will hurt us. The offensive line is a bigger issue. If it doesnt workout this year we will be changing up our RB stable and coaching staff.

[Jesse]

Gettleman, Shurmur, and Rivera have all talked about wanting to get rid of the read-option as the primary attack. I'm glad to have D-Will back for probably one last year. He still has it in him to get 100 yard+ games.