The Carolina Panthers will open their schedule against their branch campus in western New York – their preseason schedule, that is.
The NFL is expected to announce the regular-season slate next week.
Until then, the league tried to add a little hype to the August games by announcing the exhibition games separately Wednesday.
The Panthers will travel to Buffalo for the first exhibition before hosting Miami and New England the next two weeks. They’ll close the preseason Aug. 30 like they always do – against the Steelers (at Pittsburgh) in a game in which the majority of the starters on both teams will sit.