{"id":403775,"date":"2026-01-12T23:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403775\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:22:34","slug":"complete-list-of-panthers-2026-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403775\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete list of Panthers 2026 free agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 At the conclusion of the 2025 season, the Panthers now have 25 players eligible for unrestricted free agency.<\/p>\n<p>That group includes running back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/rico-dowdle\/\" title=\"Rico Dowdle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rico Dowdle<\/a>, who posted his second straight 1,000-yard season, along with center <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/cade-mays\/\" title=\"Cade Mays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Mays<\/a> and the experienced offensive line corps of <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/austin-corbett\/\" title=\"Austin Corbett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Corbett<\/a>, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/yosh-nijman\/\" title=\"Yosh Nijman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yosh Nijman<\/a>, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/brady-christensen\/\" title=\"Brady Christensen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Christensen<\/a>, and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/jake-curhan\/\" title=\"Jake Curhan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Curhan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On defense, safety <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/nick-scott\/\" title=\"Nick Scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Scott<\/a>, linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/christian-rozeboom\/\" title=\"Christian Rozeboom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Rozeboom<\/a>, and outside linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/d-j-wonnum\/\" title=\"D.J. Wonnum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D.J. Wonnum<\/a> lead the list.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiation period with free agents begins March 9 at noon and ends at 3:59 p.m. on March 11. During that time, teams can contact and enter into contract negotiations with the agents of free agents, but no deals with teams can be finalized. The league year begins at 4 p.m. on March 11, at which point free agents can execute contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the complete list of players whose contracts expire after the season:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 At the conclusion of the 2025 season, the Panthers now have 25 players eligible for unrestricted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[18789,829,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-403775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}