{"id":830075,"date":"2026-03-24T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/830075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:01:20","slug":"panthers-announce-signing-of-rb-aj-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/830075\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers announce signing of RB AJ Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 23, 2026, 7:45 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <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> have officially made an addition to their running back room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As announced on Monday, the team has signed veteran rusher AJ Dillon to a one-year deal. The agreement was <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/03\/18\/nfl-free-agency-rumors-panthers-aj-dillon\/89212936007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by multiple outlets last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After spending three years at Boston College, where he&#8217;d become a third-team All-American and three-time first-team All-ACC member, Dillon was selected in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. He&#8217;d stick on up north for nearly five seasons, amassing 2,428 yards and 16 touchdowns on 597 attempts over 60 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A neck injury would force Dillon to miss the entirety of the 2024 campaign. He did, however, return in 2025 as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles\u2014rushing for 60 yards on 12 carries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Dillon is now the sixth running back currently rostered by Carolina\u2014joining Chuba Hubbard, Jonathon Brooks, Trevor Etienne, Montrell Johnson Jr. and Anthony Tyus III.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\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\">Follow our <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/03\/09\/panthers-free-agency-tracker-nfl-offseason\/89059305007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free agency tracker<\/a> for all the latest moves.<\/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":"March 23, 2026, 7:45 p.m. ET The Carolina Panthers have officially made an addition to their running back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,102417,95882,97082,96059,97057,99268,95896,98624,95888,95899,95906,96177,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-830075","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-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagaj-dillon","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagboston-college","20":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","21":"tag-tagchuba-hubbard","22":"tag-tagjonathon-brooks","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagncaa-atlantic-coast-conference","25":"tag-tagnfl","26":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","27":"tag-tagoverall-positive","28":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116281218372793291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830075","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=830075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}