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Panthers sign Jaycee Horn to $100 million dollar deal


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I know folks are going to look at the number and freak out, but we have DEs getting $40 million now...so...yeah.  The market is moving up!

Horn had some bad injury luck, but was pretty healthy last year (aside from team holding him out because we weren't fighting for a playoff spot).  Let's see what happens here.  

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37 minutes ago, TLGPanthersFan said:

I wanted to resign him but you don't pay a chronically injured CB that kinda money no matter how good he is when he is actually healthy.

That’s not what this looks like. If you want to pay JC, you have to make him the highest-paid cornerback or at least put him in that ballpark. This is not a Panther thing it’s just the state of the NFL

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The Carolina Panthers kicked off their free agency spending extravaganza by killing two birds with one stone. They inked star defensive back Jaycee Horn to a record-setting four-year, $100 million extension that completely reset the cornerback market across the NFL. Horn's $25 million annual salary makes him the highest-paid corner in the NFL just ahead of his contemporaries Jalen Ramsey ($24.1M), Patrick Surtain ($24M), and Jaire Alexander ($21M).

With the extension, Carolina also created $9 million in cap space to spend this offseason. For a team with as many holes as the Panthers, every dollar becomes crucial in their quest to climb out of the league's gutter.

https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/news/how-much-cap-space-do-panthers-save-with-jaycee-horn-mega-deal

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1 minute ago, countryboi said:

That’s not what this looks like. If you want to pay JC, you have to make him the highest-paid cornerback or at least put him in that ballpark. This is not a Panther thing it’s just the state of the NFL

Exactly this.

We had literally no leverage.

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Just now, countryboi said:

That’s not what this looks like. If you want to pay JC, you have to make him the highest-paid cornerback or at least put him in that ballpark. This is not a Panther thing it’s just the state of the NFL

The talk from the past month from the beat guys was that Horn wanted to be paid top5, the Panthers didnt want to break 20 million per and as of just last week the sides were far apart.  I wonder what changed over the weekend?

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23 minutes ago, Chaos said:

We all know that if JC walked or was traded, he’d be a beast somewhere else and we’d just piss and moan over what could’ve been. We got our guy, he’s ours. It’s a risky move but I see the upside. LFG!

I know I'm just stating the very obvious...
but it's always funny in the NFL that if you let a guy like Jaycee walk, he could stay hurt and we get some solid young replacements with the money and now Dan Morgan is a genius.

Or you let him walk, he randomly heals like Wolverine and plays like Revis and now you're an idiot.

We'll just have to hope with time this move pays off lol

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I feel like a lot of people here dont understand how the market works.. 

If you are top 10 in the NFL at your position and your contract is up for renewal you WILL become the #1 paid player... even if other rate higher than you. 

Wait for BY to get his contract if he makes it that long. He will be paid more than Josh Allen and all those guys. The race will be do we sign him before CJ Stroud or after. Both will set the market. 

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2 minutes ago, scratched said:

Since when did Carolina think they can set the market for players? Ridiculous to pay him that much!

lol how many players are we paying top dollar to though? Three with Horn. Brown, Horn, and Moton which in the last year of his deal. The cap is going up big time next season and teams contracts are reflecting that, hence the reason we have DE’s getting paid 40 million per year. A 34 year old Khalil Mack just got over 18 million for a 1 year deal. It’s worth it to lock Horn up and reward one of our own home grown talent. By the start of the season he will be top 5 paid and next season will look like a steal. I remember when people absolutely flipped about Cam Newtons contract and he ended up being underpaid just a season later 

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One more caveat to keep in mind. If I'm reading the report correctly, this is an extension on top of the 5th year option. So either you can look at it as a 5 year, $112.5 million contract (22.5 million average), or a 4 year contract starting in 2026 when the cap will be even higher and he'll inevitably be paid less than a couple other corners signing extensions by then. It still seems like a lot given his injury issues but I can at least understand it, particularly with the cap savings this year. If, and obviously a big if, he can stay reasonably healthy, it will end up a very solid deal.

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