The Carolina Panthers cut Kawann Short today, severing ties with a former Pro Bowl DT who’d been with the team since 2013. Carolina also released two other players a couple of days ago: DT Woodrow Hamilton and DB Natrell Jamerson.
How much salary cap space has these moves saved? Short answer: not a ton. Short’s release was not designated a post-June 1 cut, so it frees up around $8.6 million for the 2021 season. (Carolina would have saved $13.28 million post June 1). The other two were practice squad/bubble players who were never going to cost much to begin with.
According to Over the Cap, the team currently has approximately $20 million to play with for the rest of the year.
That’s not a lot of space, but it should be enough to make at least a couple of mid-level signings in free agency and pay OT Taylor Moton.
If the Panthers are also interested in retaining WR/RB Curtis Samuel (they should be) they can free up more by cutting the likes of DE Stephen Weatherly, DB Juston Burris and P Michael Palardy.
