CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers on Saturday introduced plans to re-sign Hunter Renfrow lower than per week after releasing the 2021 Professional Bowl extensive receiver.
It is a one-year deal, a league supply advised ESPN.
Renfrow will fill the roster spot of Jalen Coker, who was positioned on injured reserve with a quad harm suffered in Thursday’s apply. Coker, who is predicted to overlook the primary 4 to 6 video games, had been tabbed to interchange veteran Adam Thielen, who was traded to the Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday.
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Renfrow missed the 2024 season after being launched by the Las Vegas Raiders following a 2023 season during which his manufacturing dropped considerably whereas he handled ulcerative colitis.
There have been instances whereas coping with the illness that Renfrow suffered by seven straight days of fever of 103 levels. He puzzled if he would play soccer once more after disappointing 2022 and 2023 seasons.
“I felt so dangerous these two years, and I felt like I let my teammates down a lot,” Renfrow mentioned when he started his comeback with Carolina within the spring. “As a result of I had expectations. I simply signed a brand new contract [in 2022]. I had a brand new teaching employees that I used to be going to be good for. And I used to be only a dud.
“I used to be like, ‘Man, I do know I do not really feel properly, however I don’t need to play soccer once more. Like, I don’t need to let folks down. I simply need to go over right here in my nook, do what I do, get into enterprise.'”
The Panthers stored in fixed contact with Renfrow after releasing him, initially hoping to signal him to the apply squad whereas he bought again to 100% after a hamstring harm throughout coaching camp slowed his comeback.
Coach Dave Canales mentioned Wednesday that he did not suppose Renfrow was fairly again to the shape he confirmed early in coaching camp when explaining the choice to chop him. However each Canales and normal supervisor Dan Morgan repeatedly advised Renfrow they wished him to be part of the group.
Coker’s harm sped up the method.
“He is bought some freaky lateral quickness,” offensive coordinator Brad Idzik lately mentioned of Coker. “After which when he opens up, he is like large strides, a strong first 4 steps, which simulates, ‘I am going full-tilt vertical.’
“He simulates that each single time, after which he eats up no matter leverage you give him.”
