Garry Williams and Gary Barnidge extended

[Dpantherman]

Williams’ deal was the bigger of the two, according to numbers obtained by ESPN.com. He was given a $400,000 signing bonus. He’s scheduled to make $550,000, plus a $100,000 workout bonus in 2012. In 2013, his salary will rise to $900,000 with a $100,000 workout bonus.

Williams is viewed as a player who can be a solid backup at guard and tackle and even has the potential to develop into a starter.

Barnidge isn’t a threat to take playing time away from Greg Olsen, but can be valuable as a backup, especially if Jeremy Shockey is not re-signed after this season. Barnidge was given a $50,000 signing bonus. He’s scheduled to make $615,000 next season and also can collect a $25,000 workout bonus.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/28617/panthers-extend-two-contracts

[Marguide]

Nice. I like both of them.

We need GB on special teams. I would like to see him and Captain become core special teams players.

[Zithers]

interesting. i wonder if garry williams coming back puts anyone's jobs in question (particularly bell, ziemba, schwartz, bernadeau, hangartner). maybe even wharton who is making loads of money and not playing up to it.

also i wonder if barney is being brought back for his ST play or if TIGHT END GURU rob chudzinski approved him to become TE of the future if/when shock leaves.

[BigSyke]

shockey aint coming back..........

[Lumps]

Good bye Wharton.

[Marguide]

shockey aint coming back..........

Disagree. I think Shock is here for at least 1 more year.

Good bye Wharton.

Travelle could be a cap casualty, but I doubt it. In spite of what Football's Future said, to my eyes he has been very solid this year. I do look for him to be restructured though.

[panthers55]

interesting. i wonder if garry williams coming back puts anyone's jobs in question (particularly bell, ziemba, schwartz, bernadeau, hangartner). maybe even wharton who is making loads of money and not playing up to it.

also i wonder if barney is being brought back for his ST play or if TIGHT END GURU rob chudzinski approved him to become TE of the future if/when shock leaves.

We will typically carry 9 or 10 linemen into camp. If you count the starters as Wharton, Hangartner,Kalil, Otah and Gross, then that leaves Bell, Ziemba, Schwartz, Bernadeau and Williams. With Otah very questionable, and the likelihood that all 9 of them making it out of preseason healthy at 50% or less, I think we will need all of them.

As for Wharton, he was given a 6 year contract in 2008. I suspect he will be here in 2012. After that who knows.

[Crixtala]

glad to see barnidge get extended

once he gets on the field, he'll do the same things olsen and shockey are doing for us now

[panthers55]

shockey aint coming back..........

Shockey has been very productive this year and is our best blocking TE. I would be shocked if he weren't given a 2 year contract after this year. He has remained pretty healthy and is a key to the running game and passing game.

[panthers55]

Disagree. I think Shock is here for at least 1 more year.

Travelle could be a cap casualty, but I doubt it. In spite of what Football's Future said, to my eyes he has been very solid this year. I do look for him to be restructured though.

I doubt he gets restructured. He will make 5.7 million next year which is not excessive for a starting left guard.

[GotSwag?]

Anxious to see what GB can do in this offense.

[Kurb]

Barny could blow up on this offense

[jtnc]

I was a huge fan of Dante Rosario, and was sad when we let him go.

[Kurb]

Me too.that said his lack of blowing up somewhere else is very telling