Panthers free agents

Unrestricted Free Agents:
KR Michael Bates
WR Isaac Byrd
CB Terry Fair
LB Brad Jackson
CB Emmanuel McDaniel
LB Hannibal Navies
OL Jamar Nesbit
QB Rodney Peete
P Todd Sauerbrun
DE Fernando Smith .


Restricted Free Agents:
FB Brad Hoover
CB Reggie Howard
OL Jeno James
LB Lester Towns
TE Jermaine Wiggins

Exclusive Rights Free Agents:
WR Nathan Black
S Deke Cooper
TE Sean Draper
K Shayne Graham
RB Rod Smart
OL Tim Stuber
DE Josh Taves
C Louis Williams

 

We should probably resign these guys:
OL Jamar Nesbit
QB Rodney Peete
P Todd Sauerbrun
FB Brad Hoover
CB Reggie Howard

 

Try and resign these guys




LB Hannibal Navies
OL Jamar Nesbit
QB Rodney Peete
P Todd Sauerbrun



First round tender:
CB Reggie Howard

Fourth round tender:
FB Brad Hoover
LB Lester Towns
TE Jermaine Wiggins

No reason not to keep all our ERFA till camp.

 

non-first round tenders default to the original level of drafting.
I'd give Navies a flat offer and not really negotiate, he's a starting level linebacker and deserves something better than we should offer - he's been hurt, he has a guy behind him in Witherspoon who should see the field good bad or indifferent.

 

I say let DEF. let Towns go to a team that could use his strengths better... maybe somewhere running a 3-4 Defense... and collect the conpensation for him

Resign:
- Sauerbrun
- Peete
- Howard

POSSIBLY Resign (Depending if we can get better value elsewhere):
- Hoover
- Nesbit
- Fair (IF he can still be an effective return man)
- Bates (IF he's healed... and if Fair is in better condition and can be an effective return man I let Bates walk.)

 

I'd like to keep Wiggins around as well.

 

Keep...

Sauerbrun
Rod Smart
Peete
Wiggins

Let the others beg to come back...

 

Shayne Graham - I know he's exculsive, I want him.

I want either Fair or McDaniel. Bound to be a viable 5th corner in FA if Rashard sucks shit. We'd have:
Howard
Cousins
Wesley
Fair/McDaniel
Anderson
Not shabby.

Nesbit has been in the Dog house. I think he might go by-by. I think guard and tackle addressed in draft/FA.

Peete should get re-signed. I hope he's not the starter, but he should stick a couple more years. He stepped up in the midst of major adversity. He'd be a great #2 or even #3.

Sauerbrun, as long as he's reasonable.
Ditto for Navies. Witherspoon should win the job outright.

Hoover should get a contract. I still want Lorenzo Neal. If I HAVE to choose between the 2, I pick Lorenzo Neal.

Jeno and Lester could go. Jeno was a scratch the last several games. I like Lester, but he's too slow for our scheme. And when Lester played, our Defense sucked ass.

Wiggins could stay into camp for sure.

Be intersting on all the scrubs - Williams and Stuber and Taves (Taves played vs. NO). Smart should get a deal. Who cares about the rest.