{"id":538574,"date":"2026-03-13T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538574\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:25:08","slug":"source-ex-packers-lt-rasheed-walker-agrees-to-join-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538574\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Ex-Packers LT Rasheed Walker agrees to join Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"647c27bf-ab86-550e-5b83-91c29e73e4a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> have agreed to a deal with free agent left tackle <a data-player-guid=\"a2900084-6b30-1120-e194-23a1829b7960\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361429\/rasheed-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rasheed Walker<\/a>, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, a former seventh-round pick, became a starter for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"06cd3bcf-7a86-53d4-28e7-aa049dd36261\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/gb\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> in Week 2 of the 2023 season after All-Pro <a data-player-guid=\"88d30293-37ba-6881-ddcd-222b24226157\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/15963\/david-bakhtiari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Bakhtiari<\/a> went down with a knee injury and never gave up the job.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47899175\/2026-nfl-free-agency-tracker-live-updates-signings-trades-cuts-contracts-rumors\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1627927_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He made 48 straight starts until he was held out of last year&#8217;s Week 18 game when the Packers rested several starters for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Walker, 26, had a pass block win rate of 93.8%, which was good for 11th among all offensive tackles. However, that number dropped to 89.7% in the playoff loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19d73366-b5a5-cca2-a176-a2c024ce0bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a>. That ranked only 14th among the tackles that played on wild-card weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with allowing seven sacks last season, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Rob Demovsky contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Panthers have agreed to a deal with free agent left tackle Rasheed Walker, a source told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-538574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}