{"id":815915,"date":"2026-03-16T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/815915\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:29:34","slug":"panthers-to-re-sign-p-sam-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/815915\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers To Re-Sign P Sam Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran punter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MartSa01.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-16_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Martin<\/a> joined the Panthers on a one-year deal last March, but he will receive more security this offseason. The Panthers will retain Martin on a two-year contract worth up to $5MM, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2033649141725712659\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ian Rapoport of NFL Network<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina is the fourth NFL stop for the 36-year-old Martin, who divided his first 12 seasons among Detroit, Denver and Buffalo. Aside from a 10-game 2017 with the Lions, Martin has played at least 16 contests in every season. Martin has averaged 46.3 gross yards per punt and 41.0 net over 811 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>During his first year with Carolina, Martin punted 56 times in 17 games. At 47.2 yards per attempt, he checked in just shy of the league-average mark (47.4). His 40.5 net was also a bit below the mean (41.3), though he posted the sixth-highest percentage of punts inside the 20 (48.2). Martin also punted for a touchback on just 5.4% of attempts, easily better than league-average figure of 7.7.<\/p>\n<p>For the reigning NFC South champion Panthers, re-signing Martin means they will keep their 2025 special teams battery in place. Martin will again team with kicker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FitzRy01.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-16_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan Fitzgerald<\/a> and long snapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JansJ.00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-16_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">J.J. Jansen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran punter Sam Martin joined the Panthers on a one-year deal last March, but he will receive more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236,22655,3571],"class_list":["post-815915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-sam-martin","tag-transactions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116240986909096132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815915","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=815915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}