Panthers exercise Icky’s Fifth Year Option

[therealmjl]

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/panthers-will-pick-up-ickey-ekwonus-fifth-year-option

[Jon Snow]

I guess they couldn't workout an extension. 

Edited 14 hours ago by Jon Snow

[Captain Morgan]

Ick wanting too much for the job he's done.  Hope he realizes he's ok but has never got close to a pro bowl

[Camp Fodder]

Seeing they didn’t draft any o lineman kinda had to

[jfra78]

6 hours ago, Captain Morgan said:

Ick wanting too much for the job he's done.  Hope he realizes he's ok but has never got close to a pro bowl

Maybe he's betting on himself to play better and earn a better payday

[45catfan]

6 hours ago, Camp Fodder said:

Seeing they didn’t draft any o lineman kinda had to

^This.  I'm sure they were looking too.  We just had so many holes to fill that picking a dude to leverage Icky in contract negotiations seemed very petty.  Noticed the news broke as soon as the draft was over.  Coincidence?

[Icege]

We got to get some of yall in therapy.

It's normal for teams to exercise the fifth-year option in order to continue working on an extension during the season (with added wiggle room of an extra year to get the deal done).

It doesn't exclusively signify Icky wanting too much. It's a normal part of the process.

That might seem a little different after Rhule/Hurney and Reich/Fitterer, but that's because both of those regimes were garbage juice.