The Panthers got off to a hot start as soon as the legal tampering window opened yesterday in advance of tomorrow’s start to the league year. For those of you confused by that sentence, just know that legal tampering is NFLese for the official unofficial start to Free Agency.
The real work started to become public last week with a series of announcements of contract restructures—not to mention a certain trade that will also become officially official tomorrow—followed by yesterday’s flurry of signings. Without further adieu, let’s get you caught up before today’s activity kicks off.
The restructures
Shaq Thompson signed a two-year extension to his contract on March 11th that cleared about $5M off of the 2023 cap.