The Carolina Panthers have signed a quarterback!
Okay, maybe it’s not the splashy kind of name fans have been hoping for under center. Nonetheless, the team—as announced on Tuesday morning–has inked Jacob Eason to a reserve/future deal.
Eason, a University of Washington product, cracked into the league as a fourth-round pick of the Indianapolis Colts in the 2020 draft. Following a pair of seasons at the University of Georgia, where he started 12 games in 2016, the Lake Stevens, Wash. native moved back home—where he passed for 3,132 yards, 23 touchdowns and eight interceptions before his jump to the pros.
The 6-foot-6, 231-pounder appeared in his first NFL game in Week 2 of the 2021 campaign—when he completed two of his five throws for 25 yards and a pick against the Los Angeles Rams. Eason would be waived by the Colts later on that season and was quickly scooped by the Seattle Seahawks, where he lasted until the summer of 2022.
And that’s where the Panthers came in, claiming him off waivers from Seattle on Aug. 31. His lone appearance of the 2022 season came in Week 6 against, coincidentally, the Rams—a relief outing in which he connected on three of his five chucks for 59 yards and another interception.
