Over the next several weeks I’ll look back on Scott Fitterer’s second year as the Carolina Panthers general manager and assess his performance in salary cap management, free agent signings, the 2022 draft, and player trades. Last year he earned a “C” grade in his first season as GM. We’ll see if he fared better in Year 2.
This week we will explore Fitterer’s performance managing the salary cap by creating cap space in 2022 and using it to extend current Panthers players (free agency will be a separate column). In my grading system a “C” means meeting expectations.