{"id":767872,"date":"2026-02-22T01:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/767872\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:50:16","slug":"ex-panthers-cb-keith-taylor-re-signs-with-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/767872\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Panthers CB Keith Taylor re-signs with Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 21, 2026, 2:22 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> defender may be settling in further down south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As announced on Friday, cornerback Keith Taylor has re-signed with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>. Taylor, now 27 years old, began his NFL career in Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Panthers <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2021\/05\/01\/panthers-pick-keith-taylor-2021-nfl-draft\/80069034007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selected<\/a> Taylor, a University of Washington product, in the fifth round of the 2021 NFL Draft. The 6-foot-3 defensive back went on to start in five of his 34 games for the team through 2022\u2014amassing 67 combined tackles, six passes defensed and two fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Carolina waived Taylor ahead of his third pro campaign, during final roster cuts for the 2023 regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Taylor would land with the Kansas City Chiefs a few days later. He&#8217;d stick on as a member of the Super Bowl LVIII team and go on to appear in 11 games for the Chiefs in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">His most recent in-game action came in Week 10 of this past season, with the Atlanta Falcons. Jacksonville then signed Taylor off Atlanta&#8217;s practice squad on Christmas Day of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 21, 2026, 2:22 p.m. ET A former Carolina Panthers defender may be settling in further down south.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7699,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,96059,97620,96091,96058,95936,109066,95896,95888,95895,95899,96177,95883,100574,95894,99106,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-767872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers","16":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","17":"tag-sstsnpanthers","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","20":"tag-tagchristmas","21":"tag-tagholiday-marketplace-hub","22":"tag-tagjacksonville","23":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","24":"tag-tagkeith-taylor","25":"tag-tagnational-sports","26":"tag-tagnfl","27":"tag-tagnfl-hub","28":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","29":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","30":"tag-tagsports-news","31":"tag-tagsuper-bowl-58","32":"tag-tagtwitter","33":"tag-taguniversity-of-washington","34":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767872","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=767872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}