{"id":227226,"date":"2025-07-22T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/227226\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:18:15","slug":"panthers-sign-second-round-olb-nic-scourton-complete-rookie-deals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/227226\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Sign Second-Round OLB Nic Scourton, Complete Rookie Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Panthers are the latest team to wrap up their rookie deals in time for training camp. Edge rusher\u00a0Nic Scourton<\/a>\u00a0agreed to terms Saturday, per a team announcement. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Scourton was selected with the No. 51 pick in April\u2019s draft. That slot saw guarantee rates of 54.8% and 66.4% over the past two years, Jason FItzgerald of Over the Cap notes<\/a>. This pact is highly unlikely to be fully guaranteed like a number of other second-round deals signed this year, but Scourton no doubt moved that mark upward like all other players taken around him in the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n

During his first two college seasons, Scourton played at Purdue. After not logging any starts as a freshman, he stood out the following year with 10 sacks (most in the Big Ten) and 15 tackles for loss. Last offseason, the second-team all-conference performer transferred to Texas A&M. During his lone campaign with the Aggies, Scourton saw his sack total drop to five (which nevertheless led the team) while adding 14 tackles for loss and a forced fumble.<\/p>\n

That production landed him first-team All-SEC honors as well as a second-team All-American nod. Scourton drew plenty of attention during the pre-draft process and it came as little surprise when he came off the board midway through the second round. The Panthers were seen by many as a strong candidate to select a pass rusher with their first pick, but they instead went the receiver route on Day 1 (Tetairoa McMillan<\/a>) before turning their attention to pass rushers.<\/p>\n

Scourton\u2019s selection was followed by that of Princely Umanmielen<\/a> in the third round. Both rookies should feature on at least a part-time basis as members of an edge rush group which lost Jadeveon Clowney<\/a> due to his release this spring. Scourton\u2019s strength against the run should allow him to carve out a role fairly early with Carolina as the team looks to take a needed step forward on defense<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n

With Scourton\u2019s pact taken care of, here is the full breakdown of the Panthers\u2019 draft class:<\/p>\n

Round 1, No. 8: Tetairoa McMillan<\/a> (WR, Arizona) (signed<\/a>)
\nRound 2, No. 51 (from Broncos): Nic Scourton<\/a> (OLB, Texas A&M) (signed)
\nRound 3, No. 77 (from Falcons through Patriots): Princely Umanmielen<\/a> (OLB, Ole Miss) (signed<\/a>)
\nRound 4, No. 114 (from Cowboys): Trevor Etienne<\/a> (RB, Georgia) (signed<\/a>)
\nRound 4, No. 122 (from Broncos): Lathan Ransom<\/a> (S, Ohio State) (signed<\/a>)
\nRound 5, No. 140 (from Giants): Cam Jackson<\/a> (DT, Florida) (signed<\/a>)
\nRound 5, No. 163 (from Ravens): Mitchell Evans<\/a> (TE, Notre Dame) (signed<\/a>)
\nRound 6, No. 208 (from Eagles through Broncos): Jimmy Horn<\/a> (WR, Colorado) (signed<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Panthers are the latest team to wrap up their rookie deals in time for training camp. Edge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[80,235,260,2567,7,6,748,236,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-227226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nic-scourton","15":"tag-panthers","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114897322356479945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227226","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=227226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}