{"id":653712,"date":"2026-03-13T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/653712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:01:14","slug":"panthers-ot-rasheed-walker-agree-to-terms-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/653712\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers, OT Rasheed Walker agree to terms on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walker, who is ranked No. 19 overall and was the top remaining player available on <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/top-101-nfl-free-agents-of-2026-who-are-the-best-players-available\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gregg Rosenthal&#8217;s Top 101 free agents list<\/a> at the time of the deal, rose to the occasion in Green Bay as a seventh-round pick turned starting left tackle the past three seasons &#8212; missing all but one game in 2025 as the Packers sat their starters in Week 18.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old&#8217;s durability figures to be greatly valued in Carolina after the Panthers experienced a number of injuries along the offensive line in 2025. Left tackle <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/ikem-ekwonu\/\" title=\"Ikem Ekwonu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ikem Ekwonu<\/a> was the latest blow after he suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in the Panthers&#8217; wild-card loss to the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>Walker could fill that role should Ekwonu not be ready for the start of the 2026 season, and has an opportunity to cash in next year with a successful campaign this upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker, who is ranked No. 19 overall and was the top remaining player available on Gregg Rosenthal&#8217;s Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":653713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[43574,8996,50,1232,530,255805,269688,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-653712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-rasheed-walker","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116224359914017740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}