{"id":839331,"date":"2026-03-28T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839331\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:56:28","slug":"former-panthers-exec-returns-to-nfl-in-new-role-with-division-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839331\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Panthers exec returns to NFL in new role with division rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 27, 2026, 6:05 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A former Carolina Panthers executive has returned to the NFC South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As announced on Thursday evening, the Atlanta Falcons have hired Steven Drummond as their senior vice president of communications. Drummond previously worked behind the scenes in Carolina for nearly 18 years before <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2023\/04\/12\/panthers-vp-football-operations-steven-drummond-resigns\/79803095007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resigning<\/a> from the organization ahead of the 2023 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Following a three-year stint as the communications coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Drummond was hired by the Panthers as their assistant director of communications in 2005. He&#8217;d go on to serve as the director of communications, director of communications and digital media, the vice president of communications and external affairs and the vice president of football operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Drummond has spent the last three years as the deputy athletic director and chief marketing officer at the University of Georgia Athletic Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/03\/09\/panthers-free-agency-tracker-nfl-offseason\/89059305007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">free agency tracker<\/a>\u00a0for all the latest moves.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\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\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 27, 2026, 6:05 a.m. ET A former Carolina Panthers executive has returned to the NFC South. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,95896,95888,95899,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-839331","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-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagnational-sports","19":"tag-tagnfl","20":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","21":"tag-tagoverall-positive","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116307858797995074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839331","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=839331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}