{"id":730968,"date":"2026-06-12T01:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730968\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:39:24","slug":"wr-jalen-coker-carolina-panthers-reach-3-year-35m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730968\/","title":{"rendered":"WR Jalen Coker, Carolina Panthers reach 3-year, $35M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Carolina Panthers extended a key part of their offense Thursday, reaching a three-year, $35 million deal with receiver Jalen Coker, agent Matt Glose told NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coker was an exclusive rights free agent this year and was set to be a restricted free agent in 2027. Now, he&#8217;ll stick in Carolina through at least the 2029 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The new deal could rise to as much $41 million with incentives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coker was an undrafted free agent out of Holy Cross who initially signed with Carolina in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No. 2 on Carolina&#8217;s receiver depth chart behind Tet McMillan, Coker has 65 catches for 872 yards, with five touchdowns, in his two NFL seasons, appearing in 22 of a possible 34 games. He starred in Carolina&#8217;s playoff loss to the Los Angeles Rams in January, logging nine catches for 134 yards and a score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just excited to play for this team, that&#8217;s all it is,&#8221; Coker said previously. &#8220;All that other stuff, it is what it is. I&#8217;m just excited to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Panthers extended a key part of their offense Thursday, reaching a three-year, $35 million deal with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,127798,263206,514,82],"class_list":["post-730968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-panthers-sports-football-team-team-statscom-364","tag-jalen-coker-sports-football-player-player-statscom-1218753","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}