{"id":23217,"date":"2026-03-09T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=23217"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:40:25","slug":"source-panthers-qb-kenny-pickett-agree-to-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=23217","title":{"rendered":"Source: Panthers, QB Kenny Pickett agree to 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"647c27bf-ab86-550e-5b83-91c29e73e4a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> and quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"091ea624-8d37-3c02-0e79-a5f866733f19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4240703\/kenny-pickett\">Kenny Pickett<\/a> agreed to a one-year, $7.5 million deal that includes $4 million in guarantees, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett, 27, was the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b18540eb-6f2b-534c-e7f9-9bd930518da9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lv\/las-vegas-raiders\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> &#8216; backup behind starter <a data-player-guid=\"593e3c58-2b92-e0f1-f4a8-84215e27f023\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/15864\/geno-smith\">Geno Smith<\/a> last season. Pickett appeared in six games and made two starts. He totaled 188 passing yards, a touchdown and a pair of interceptions. Pickett had a completion rate of 62.2% and a QBR of 3.4.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders traded away a fifth-round pick to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"539babc5-e5fb-753b-8ae1-c15032a91ef4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-browns\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> in exchange for Pickett last August after backup <a data-player-guid=\"3a340453-cfff-8bd3-4be0-143665b9d31d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4260394\/aidan-oconnell\">Aidan O&#8217;Connell<\/a> was placed on injured reserve with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett was drafted in the first round by the Steelers in 2022 and spent his first two seasons in Pittsburgh before he was traded to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d1a9b001-1df7-fbd7-ae4c-6ca7065286ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> in March 2024. He is 16-11 as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>In 36 career games (27 starts), Pickett has thrown for 4,953 yards, 16 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p><i>ESPN&#8217;s Ryan McFadden contributed to this report. <\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48156902\/source-panthers-qb-kenny-pickett-agree-1-year-deal\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers and quarterback Kenny Pickett agreed to a one-year, $7.5 million deal that includes $4 million in guarantees, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter on Monday. Pickett, 27, was the Las Vegas Raiders &#8216; backup behind starter Geno Smith last season. Pickett appeared in six games and made two starts. He totaled 188 &#8230; <a title=\"Source: Panthers, QB Kenny Pickett agree to 1-year deal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=23217\" aria-label=\"Read more about Source: Panthers, QB Kenny Pickett agree to 1-year deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Source-Panthers-QB-Kenny-Pickett-agree-to-1-year-deal.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23219,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217\/revisions\/23219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}