{"id":823300,"date":"2026-03-20T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/823300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:09:20","slug":"panthers-make-pair-of-returns-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/823300\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers make pair of returns official"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Panthers<\/a> have secured the returns of two more players.<\/p>\n

As announced on Thursday, the team has officially re-signed safety Nick Scott and punter Sam Martin. Scott will be back<\/a> on a one-year pact worth up to $3.25 million while Martin has been locked in<\/a> on a two-year deal worth up to $5 million.<\/p>\n

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Scott is set to enter his third season in Carolina, where he has made 22 starts over 28 games. The seven-year veteran amassed a career-high in combined tackles (111)\u2014which helped him also rake in<\/a> the fourth-highest total of performance-based pay amongst all NFL players\u2014while recording an interception and fumble recovery in 2025.<\/p>\n

Martin is coming off his first campaign with the Panthers. He punted at an average net of 40.5 yards and notched the ninth-most attempts inside the 20-yard line (27).<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: NFL free agency: Panthers re-sign S Nick Scott, P Sam Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Panthers have secured the returns of two more players. As announced on Thursday, the team has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,10128,236,22655],"class_list":["post-823300","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-nick-scott","tag-panthers","tag-sam-martin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116262139896585126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823300","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=823300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}