CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers on Saturday introduced plans to re-sign Hunter Renfrow lower than every 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 observe. Coker, who is anticipated 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 wherein his manufacturing dropped considerably whereas he handled ulcerative colitis.
There have been occasions whereas coping with the illness that Renfrow suffered by means of seven straight days of fever of 103 levels. He questioned 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 stated 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 workers that I used to be going to be excellent 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 wish to play soccer once more. Like, I don’t wish to let individuals down. I simply wish to go over right here in my nook, do what I do, get into enterprise.'”
The Panthers saved in fixed contact with Renfrow after releasing him, initially hoping to signal him to the observe squad whereas he bought again to 100% after a hamstring harm throughout coaching camp slowed his comeback.
Coach Dave Canales stated 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 common supervisor Dan Morgan repeatedly advised Renfrow they needed 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 stated of Coker. “After which when he opens up, he is like massive strides, a robust 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.”
