{"id":813997,"date":"2026-03-15T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/813997\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:29:36","slug":"safety-nick-scott-returns-to-panthers-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/813997\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Nick Scott returns to Panthers on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Safety <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3116179\/nick-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Scott<\/a>, who had a career-high 111 tackles last season, is returning to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> on a one-year contract, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Panthers signed Scott, 30, to a one-year deal last offseason to add depth to the secondary, and he started all 17 games and had an interception of<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lar\/los-angeles-rams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> quarterback <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/12483\/matthew-stafford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matthew Stafford<\/a> in the end zone that played a major factor in Carolina&#8217;s upset win in Week 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He also had nine tackles in a first-round playoff loss to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Leadership was Scott&#8217;s biggest strength, and he helped coach Dave Canales develop the type of culture he wants in Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A seventh-round draft pick by the Rams in 2019, Scott has five interceptions and 355 tackles in seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ESPN&#8217;s David Newton contributed to his report.br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Safety Nick Scott, who had a career-high 111 tackles last season, is returning to the Carolina Panthers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[113263,260,12,7,1014,58,2444,2611,88,6,424,50171],"class_list":{"0":"post-813997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-113263","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-losangelesrams","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-rams","19":"tag-scott-nick"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813997","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=813997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}