The Carolina Panthers may have just added a bit of insurance behind one of their soon-to-be free agents.
As announced on Tuesday afternoon, the team has signed kicker Matthew Wright to a reserve/future contract. The deal comes a month before the start of free agency, when Carolina’s primary placekicker Eddy Piñeiro is set to hit the open market.
Wright has signed to nine different NFL teams since entering the league out of the University of Central Florida in 2019. One of those teams was the Panthers, who picked up Wright to cover for Piñeiro’s groin strain during the summer of 2023.
He returned to the Panthers as a member of their practice squad at the end of the same campaign after Piñeiro sustained a hamstring injury.
The 28-year-old kicked for the San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs and Tennessee Titans this past season. He successfully booted through 15 of his 16 field goal attempts and all six of his extra point tries.
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