{"id":330442,"date":"2025-08-31T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/330442\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:56:17","slug":"panthers-wr-jalen-coker-to-miss-4-6-weeks-with-quad-injury-hunter-renfrow-is-re-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/330442\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers WR Jalen Coker to miss 4-6 weeks with quad injury; Hunter Renfrow is re-signed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Panthers<\/a>‘ depth chart at receiver is undergoing a shuffle.<\/p>\n

Jalen Coker will miss four to six weeks after suffering a quad injury while running 1-on-1 drills in practice, according to The Athletic’s Joe Person<\/a>. Carolina plans to place the second-year pass-catcher on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Coker will be replaced on the roster by Hunter Renfrow, who was re-signed by Carolina after he was part of the team’s final cuts earlier in the week. The team announced the corresponding moves on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Panthers’ receiving corps was already looking different after Adam Thielen was traded<\/a> to the Minnesota Vikings earlier in the week. Thielen led Carolina with 615 receiving yards and five touchdowns last season on 48 receptions.<\/p>\n

The offense is looking for a major impact from first-round pick Tetairoa McMillan<\/a>. McMillan, picked No. 8 overall out of Arizona, only caught two passes (on seven targets) for 43 yards in preseason while struggling with a hamstring injury sustained during training camp. He’s expected to be ready for Carolina’s Week 1 matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the depth chart, Xavier Legette<\/a> returns to the Panthers after a team-leading 49 catches (for 497 yards and 4 TDs) last season. David Moore<\/a> also brings back 32 receptions for 351 yards and three scores.<\/p>\n

Renfrow, a popular local favorite who played his college football at Clemson, could make a significant contribution. In five NFL seasons with the Las Vegas Raiders, he registered 269 catches for 2,884 yards and 17 TDs in 73 games (23 starts).<\/p>\n

However, Renfrow sat out the 2024 NFL season while dealing with ulcerative colitis<\/a> that caused him to lose 35 pounds, in addition to suffering fatigue and high fevers.<\/p>\n

“It kicked my butt pretty good,” Renfrow, 29, told the Panthers’ official site<\/a>. “Last year, I fluctuated in weight; I went down to 150 pounds. I had like seven straight days of 103-degree fevers. It’s tough to play when you’re not feeling great.”<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Renfrow signed a one-year deal with $2 million in guaranteed money that could be worth as much as $3 million with incentives, Person reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his first NFL season, Coker caught 32 passes for 478 yards and 2 TDs. He signed with the Panthers as an undrafted free agent out of Holy Cross.<\/p>\n

Building on that performance, there were expectations that he might emerge as Carolina’s No. 2 receiver this season. Panthers general manager Dan Morgan said the plan was for Coker to replace Thielen as the offense’s primary slot receiver<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Panthers‘ depth chart at receiver is undergoing a shuffle. Jalen Coker will miss four to six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[4128,375,235,260,2567,10126,7,4344,125,3545,393,259,6,236,20783,3866,1453,1505],"class_list":{"0":"post-330442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-adam-thielen","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-carolinapanthers","13":"tag-david-moore","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-hunter-renfrow","16":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","17":"tag-jalen-coker","18":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","19":"tag-minnesota-vikings","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-panthers","22":"tag-quad-injury","23":"tag-receiving-yards","24":"tag-tetairoa-mcmillan","25":"tag-xavier-legette"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115121604894090342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330442","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=330442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}