Not too long before the Carolina Panthers announced a Sunday night special with wide receiver Adam Thielen, we gave you a breakdown of the team’s updated salary cap space. But, uh, that’s pretty much moot now, isn’t it?
Thielen is onboard with a three-year, $25 million pact, one—similarly to the other free-agent deals the Panthers have handed out this offseason—that is pretty backloaded. The contract includes a mild $3.3 million cap number for 2023, then hits of $9.9 million in 2024 and $8.4 million in 2025.
Then, on Monday, details of linebacker Shaq Thompson’s reworked deal emerged. Instead of a $24.4 million hit for 2023, his contract calls for a softer $14 million and then $6.6 million in 2024.
And now, as we sit here at the beginning of Monday afternoon, the Panthers currently have about $23.5 million in available cap space—per Over the Cap.
Here, with Thielen joining in, are the cap hits for each of this offseason’s free-agent signings:
- WR Adam Thielen: $3.33 million
- TE Hayden Hurst: $3.13 million
- S Vonn Bell: $3.11 million
- C Bradley Bozeman: $3.07 million
- DT Shy Tuttle: $2.88 million
- RB Miles Sanders: $2.75 million
- QB Andy Dalton: $2.13 million
- LS JJ Jansen: $1.09 million
- DT DeShawn Williams: TBA
- G Justin McCray: TBA
