Per Aaron Wilson, the Panthers are elevating LB Isaiah Simmons and Saahdiq Charles for Week 16.
Simmons, 27, was a two-year starter at Clemson and won the Butkus Award as college football’s best linebacker in 2019. The Cardinals used the No. 8 overall pick in the 2019 draft on him.
Simmons signed a four-year, $20,664,055 rookie contract that includes a $12,588isa,404 signing bonus. Arizona wound up trading him to the Giants in exchange for a 2024 seventh-round pick.
He was testing the market as an unrestricted free agent after the Cardinals declined his fifth-year option in May 2023, and he opted to remain in New York on a one-year deal. Simmons then signed with Green Bay this offseason, but cut him loose at the end of August.
Simmons then signed on with the Panthers practice squad.
In 2025, Simmons has appeared in two games for the Panthers and recorded a tackle.
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