{"id":547296,"date":"2026-03-26T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:10:07","slug":"rasheed-walker-the-panthers-are-getting-a-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547296\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasheed Walker: The Panthers are getting a steal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rasheed Walker didn\u2019t land a multi-year deal out of the gate in free agency, but that hasn\u2019t dimmed the offensive tackle\u2019s confidence in what he\u2019ll bring to the Panthers. <\/p>\n<p>Walker agreed to a one-year deal with the reigning NFC South champions a few days into the new league year. The former Packers left tackle gives Carolina an experienced option at the position while Ikem Ekwonu recovers from a torn patellar tendon and he says that he\u2019ll give the Panthers what they need for as long as they need it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like wherever I landed, they were getting a steal anyway because what I bring to a team is, I <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/news\/rasheed-walker-ready-to-bring-intensity-to-panthers-offensive-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bring intensity<\/a>,\u201d Walker said, via Darin Gantt of the team\u2019s website. \u201cI\u2019m a great teammate. I work hard, and I go hard for my teammates. I feel like, by the grace of god, I landed in Carolina. I feel like it\u2019s going to be a great fit and I\u2019m just ready to do my job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Walker makes good on that prediction, he\u2019ll hit free agency again with an even stronger case to land the long-term deal he didn\u2019t get this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rasheed Walker didn\u2019t land a multi-year deal out of the gate in free agency, but that hasn\u2019t dimmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-547296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547296","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=547296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}