In other Luke Kuechly contract news: Lavonte David gets 5-year $50.25 million extension

[RelaxImaPro]

Not directly Panther related, but it definitely effects Luke's contract talks.

Both David and Wagner are in the $10-10.5 million/year range.  $11 million/year is probably a good bet for Luke.

[pantherclaw]

Making Luke a Bargain. 

[Daddy_Uncle]

How many of these threads are we going to have? Luke is in his own league of linebackers, so lets not compare him with these scrubs.  honesty don't think money is a concern for him. He is a class act, organization first type of guy. He is committed to winning a championship here in Carolina and he will get paid fairly and be a Panther for life. There is no chance the Panthers organization will let him go anywhere else and I don't think he would even want to. He will hold that Lombardi over his head in a Panthers uniform one day. take that to the bank

[CPF4LIFE]

David is definitely not a scrub.

[RelaxImaPro]

How many of these threads are we going to have? Luke is in his own league of linebackers, so lets not compare him with these scrubs.  honesty don't think money is a concern for him. He is a class act, organization first type of guy. He is committed to winning a championship here in Carolina and he will get paid fairly and be a Panther for life. There is no chance the Panthers organization will let him go anywhere else and I don't think he would even want to. He will hold that Lombardi over his head in a Panthers uniform one day. take that to the bank

Uh, Lavonte David is arguably the best 4-3 OLB in the league.  Wagner is the only other one I've seen discussed on here, and Wagner is the 2nd best MLB in the league after Luke.

So yeah, those two contracts setting the market very much so effect Luke's contract talks.  Those 3 are the new generation of 4-3 LBers.

I posted it because it's good news for us.  It means Luke is probably going to get in the $11 million/yr range rather than the $12-15 million/yr range like people were speculating a while back.

[t96]

So yeah, those two contracts setting the market very much so effect Luke's contract talks.  Those 3 are the new generation of 4-3 LBers. 

The new generation of 4-3 LBers are Luke, Shaq and (ageless) TD.  

[Dex]

How many of these threads are we going to have? Luke is in his own league of linebackers, so lets not compare him with these scrubs.  honesty don't think money is a concern for him. He is a class act, organization first type of guy. He is committed to winning a championship here in Carolina and he will get paid fairly and be a Panther for life. There is no chance the Panthers organization will let him go anywhere else and I don't think he would even want to. He will hold that Lombardi over his head in a Panthers uniform one day. take that to the bank

No

[Donald LaFell]

If people want to say that Matt Ryan is literally Ryan Leaf then that's fine by me. He's a better Matt Hasselbeck at best and he did that thing that pissed us all off(you know what it is). 

Lavonte David is a beast on and off the field and doesn't get nearly enough recognition for it, his good name should not be soiled here!