{"id":980904,"date":"2026-08-04T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:43:16","slug":"panthers-make-roster-moves-after-retirement-of-labryan-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980904\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers make roster moves, after retirement of LaBryan Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 The Panthers made a series of moves Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran defensive end LaBryan Ray was placed on the reserve\/retired list.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t at practice Tuesday, and head coach Dave Canales said it was because of personal reasons. The 28-year-old Ray has been here since 2023, when he was signed after a training camp tryout. He appeared in 46 games the last three seasons, with 10 starts.<\/p>\n<p>They also waived wide receiver Gabriel Benyard and waived-injured wide receiver Ainias Smith.<\/p>\n<p>To refill the roster, they signed wide receivers Roc Taylor\u00a0and Elijah Cooks. They still have an available roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Cooks has spent time with the Jaguars, Eagles, and Saints, and played in the UFL this spring. Taylor spent time with the Steelers last year and played in the UFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 The Panthers made a series of moves Tuesday afternoon. Veteran defensive end LaBryan Ray was placed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":980905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[355392,25714,105,1232,62,10372,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-980904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2026-training-camp","tag-app-news","tag-latest-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-spotlight","tag-transactions","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117039425446399019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980904","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=980904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}