{"id":836105,"date":"2026-03-27T03:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/836105\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:54:15","slug":"gun-charges-against-new-panthers-ot-rasheed-walker-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/836105\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun charges against new Panthers OT Rasheed Walker dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rasheed Walker<\/a> has to be breathing a sigh of relief. It had to have been a stressful free agency period before he was picked up by the Carolina Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On top of all the waiting and all the unrealized expectations contract-wise, Walker had been arrested and charged<\/a> with criminal possession of a firearm in late January while in New York at LaGuardia Airport.<\/p>\n

Walker then went into free agency expecting to be one of the top players available as a former seventh-round pick who blossomed into a full-time left tackle for the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n

Instead, Walker had to wait multiple days into free agency to get a call, and that call was for the Panthers on a one-year prove-it deal.<\/p>\n

The good news for him is that at least he’s got a job for 2026. Also, according to David Newton of ESPN<\/a>, the gun charges have been dropped.<\/p>\n

Rasheed Walker was facing two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm<\/p>\n

At the time, Walker could have been in big trouble. He tried to check a bag at LaGuardia that ended up having a firearm in it. He told an airline employee that he had a lockbox in his bag with a handgun in it. It turns out it was a 9mm Glock with 36 rounds of ammo. The gun was legally registered in Wisconsin, but Walker’s attorney, Arthur Aidala, had said that the big offensive tackle wasn’t aware<\/a> that he couldn’t travel with the gun to New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Walker, 25, can now go into the 2026 season with that legal problem no longer hanging over his head.<\/p>\n

Now, he has to focus on earning his next contract. It was originally thought that Walker could have been in line for a multi-year deal that would have netted him around $20 million per year.<\/p>\n

His contract with Carolina is for one-year, $4 million with incentives that can get it up to $10 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rasheed Walker has to be breathing a sigh of relief. It had to have been a stressful free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-836105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116299122026571559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836105","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=836105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}