Current role: Tilis joined the Carolina Panthers in 2024 as their executive vice president of football operations.<\/p>\n
Why he’s a candidate: Tilis is best known for his financial savvy. As his resume highlights illustrate, Tilis’ expertise is in salary cap management and evaluation \u2014 something he has done to noted success. Tilis was the lead negotiator of the Patrick Mahomes contract<\/a>, helping to create a framework that allowed them to sign their MVP quarterback to a 10-year deal.<\/p>\n Since joining the Panthers, Tilis has played a role in creating cap stability while improving roster health and talent. The Panthers were major players in the free agency market in 2025. They made Jaycee Horn the highest-paid defensive back in history and beefed up their defense by signing defensive tackles Bobby Brown III and Tershawn Wharton as well as safety Tre’von Moehrig. Even with big-time signings and extensions, the Panthers are still in good cap health. They are projected to have just under $30 million in cap space in 2026, according to OverTheCap.com<\/a>. Tilis has been a key part of the recent success for Carolina, making him a candidate teams could eye this offseason as the Panthers make their first playoff appearance since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current role: Tilis joined the Carolina Panthers in 2024 as their executive vice president of football operations. Why…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,40502,260,224,7,88,6,96283,349],"class_list":["post-665355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlantafalcons","tag-brandt-tilis","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-falcons","tag-football","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-president-of-football","tag-tori-mcelhaney"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115862903784736907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665355","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=665355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}