A hog molly has been named the Carolina Panthers’ top free-agent signing of this past season—and it’s not the one who just went to his first Pro Bowl.
Pro Football Focus contributor Dalton Wasserman recently tabbed each team’s best and worst signees from the 2024 offseason. And it’s left guard Damien Lewis, not right guard Robert Hunt, who takes the honor for the Panthers.
Wasserman writes:
One of two marquee guards signed by Carolina last offseason, Damien Lewis delivered a career-best 75.5 overall grade in his first year with the Panthers. His performance played a significant role in the team improving from 27th to 16th in pass-blocking grade this season.
Carolina inked Lewis, a former third-round pick of the Seattle Seahawks, to a four-year, $53 million deal last spring.
In addition to that career-best overall grade, he also recorded the second-highest pass-blocking mark (72.0), the second-highest run-blocking mark (76.9) and the second-highest efficiency rate (97.4 percent) of his five-year NFL tenure.
