{"id":883339,"date":"2026-05-05T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/883339\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:00:18","slug":"former-panthers-wr-released-by-ufl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/883339\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Panthers WR released by UFL team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Carolina Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Carolina Panthers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Carolina Panthers<\/a> wideout has been released . . . from another league.<\/p>\n<p>As announced on Sunday, the United Football League&#8217;s Birmingham Stallions have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2026\/05\/03\/birmingham-stallions-release-wide-receiver-laviska-shenault-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:parted ways;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;parted ways&quot;}\" class=\"link \">parted ways<\/a> with receiver <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/32712\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Laviska Shenault;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Laviska Shenault&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laviska Shenault<\/a> Jr. The 27-year-old spent a pair of seasons with the Panthers before falling out of the NFL in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Shenault was <a href=\"https:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2022\/08\/29\/panthers-trade-jaguars-wr-laviska-shenault\/79909180007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:acquired by Carolina;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;acquired by Carolina&quot;}\" class=\"link \">acquired by Carolina<\/a> in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Jaguars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jacksonville Jaguars&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> in the summer of 2022. The swap sent the former second-round pick to the Panthers in exchange for a 2023 seventh-rounder and a 2024 sixth-rounder.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d go on to appear in 21 games for the team\u2014amassing 37 receptions for 332 yards and a touchdown along with 21 rushing attempts for 120 yards and another score.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham selected Shenault, whose last NFL stint came with <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Buffalo Bills&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the 2025 offseason, as part of the 2026 UFL Draft. He totaled just one catch for seven yards over four games with the Stallions.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@ThePanthersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@ThePanthersWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@ThePanthersWire<\/a> on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/05\/05\/panthers-wr-laviska-shenault-jr-released-ufl-stallions\/89948551007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Panthers WR Laviska Shenault Jr. released by UFL team;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Former Panthers WR Laviska Shenault Jr. released by UFL team&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Former Panthers WR Laviska Shenault Jr. released by UFL team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Carolina Panthers wideout has been released . . . from another league. As announced on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[22632,53,235,260,2567,7,125,12260,6,236,9789],"class_list":["post-883339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-birmingham-stallions","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-laviska-shenault","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-united-football-league"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116523514219580971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883339","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=883339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}