{"id":136323,"date":"2025-06-17T06:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/136323\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:27:17","slug":"panthers-reportedly-talked-to-reps-of-free-agent-s-justin-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/136323\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers reportedly talked to reps of free-agent S Justin Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Panthers<\/a> seem to be in the market for some top-end secondary help.<\/p>\n

As first reported<\/a> by team beat writer Sheena Quick on Monday afternoon, the Panthers have talked to the representatives of free-agent safety Justin Simmons. Quick, however, also noted that “nothing is imminent” between the two sides.<\/p>\n

Quick’s reporting backs that of ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, who recently stated that the Panthers have interest<\/a> in the two-time Pro Bowler.<\/p>\n

“Simmons is interesting, because I think coming out of Atlanta, I do think he’s looking for that big scheme,” Fowler said<\/a> on this past Thursday’s episode of Kincade & Salciunas. “That’s why the Eagles<\/a> are on the shortlist there. It’s Philadelphia, it’s Carolina\u2014has interest in Simmons. Ejiro Evero came from the Vic Fangio school. So that’s where I think you should look for Simmons.”<\/p>\n

Simmons, who spent eight of his nine NFL campaigns with the Denver Broncos<\/a>, played under Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero in 2022. That season saw Simmons post a league-leading six interceptions along with a career-high three forced fumbles.<\/p>\n

He suited up for the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> in 2024, where he notched 62 combined tackles and two interceptions over 16 starts.<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Panthers seem to be in the market for some top-end secondary help. As first reported by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[247,265,223,254,232,235,260,2567,231,258,25,12,388,224,7,379,1066,6559,248,267,88,6,245,537,236,242,109,530,5521,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-136323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons","12":"tag-broncos","13":"tag-carolina","14":"tag-carolina-panthers","15":"tag-carolinapanthers","16":"tag-denver","17":"tag-denver-broncos","18":"tag-eagles","19":"tag-espn","20":"tag-espn-inc","21":"tag-falcons","22":"tag-football","23":"tag-inc","24":"tag-justin","25":"tag-justin-simmons","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-positive","32":"tag-panthers","33":"tag-philadelphia","34":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","35":"tag-positive","36":"tag-simmons","37":"tag-sports","38":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114697289322105956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}