A little over a week ago, the Carolina Panthers made a handful of defensive additions. And now, the numbers for those additions are officially out.
Between April 4 and April 8, the team came to terms with linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill, defensive back Eric Rowe and defensive lineman John Penisini. The details on Grugier-Hill’s pact were already made known last Tuesday, as the Super Bowl LII champion got himself a one-year, $1.165 million contract.
As for the more recent developments, Rowe is onboard with the same financials as Grugier-Hill’s ($1.165 million base salary and a $152,250 signing bonus for 2023) while Penisini has a one-year, $940,000 deal. Those signings now leave the Panthers with approximately $26.7 million of salary cap space, the third-most in the NFL.
Here—with Rowe and Penisini now included—are this season’s cap hits for each signee from the current offseason:
- 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
- S Sam Franklin: $2.63 million
- QB Andy Dalton: $2.13 million
- G Justin McCray: $1.77 million
- DE DeShawn Williams: $1.75 million
- K Eddy Piñeiro: $1.56 million
- LS JJ Jansen: $1.09 million
- DE Henry Anderson: $1.09 million
- LB Kamu Grugier-Hill: $1.09 million
- DB Eric Rowe: $1.09 million
- DT John Penisini: $940,000
