Over the next several weeks I’ll look back on Scott Fitterer’s first year as the Carolina Panthers general manager and assess his performance in salary cap management, free agent signings, the 2021 draft, and player trades.
This week we will explore Fitterer’s performance managing the salary cap by creating cap space in 2021 and using it to extend current Panthers players (free agency will be a separate column). In my grading system a “C” means meeting expectations. I’m not one for grade inflation.
Scott Fitterer was hired in January 2021 and immediately inherited a bad salary cap situation.