{"id":259815,"date":"2025-08-04T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/259815\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:40:10","slug":"panthers-sign-lb-krys-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/259815\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Sign LB Krys Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BarnKr00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-03_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Krys Barnes<\/a>\u00a0has found his latest NFL opportunity. The veteran linebacker signed with the Panthers on Sunday, per a team announcement. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.profootballrumors.com\/files\/2025\/08\/USATSI_25138411-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-369648 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;margin: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/USATSI_25138411-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barnes operated as a starter during his first two seasons with the Packers, reaching 80 tackles on both occasions. His was limited to only six games and a reduced role in 2022, however, and the former undrafted free agent moved on after the campaign. Barnes had been with the Cardinals for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>In Arizona, the 27-year-old saw time on defense but his largest workload came about through special teams. Barnes totaled 513 third phase snaps, and it would come as no surprise if he were to find himself in a similar situation in Carolina. The UCLA product will spend the remainder of training camp, along with the preseason, attempting to carve out a roster spot for himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers elected not to retain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/ThomSh01.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-03_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shaq Thompson<\/a>\u00a0this offseason, ending his 10-year run with the organization. More recently, Carolina <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/07\/panthers-to-release-lb-josey-jewell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released<\/a> fellow linebacker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JeweJo00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-03_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josey Jewell<\/a>\u00a0as he continues to recover from a concussion. The loss of those two will leave the Panthers short on experience, although free agent addition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/RozeCh00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-03_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Rozeboom<\/a> is in line to take on a starting role. Barnes will likely be counted on as a core special teamer, but with 30 starts to his name he could step into a defensive role if needed.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the Panthers waived linebacker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/tuasivi-nomura-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-03_cfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tuasivi Nomura<\/a>.\u00a0The Fresno State product was among the team\u2019s UDFA class, but he is now set to depart after spending the spring and part of training camp in Carolina. Presuming no team puts in a claim, Nomura will become a free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Krys Barnes\u00a0has found his latest NFL opportunity. The veteran linebacker signed with the Panthers on Sunday, per a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,10600,6,236,3571,49545],"class_list":{"0":"post-259815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-krys-barnes","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-tuasivi-nomura"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114967715967623520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259815","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=259815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}