At the same time, Clowney will return to a free agency after the draft, a place he knows well. He has become a mercenary late and plays for five different clubs over the past six years. Since 2020, Clowney has signed contracts with a team in April or later four times. One more peripheral: his two -year contract with Carolina, which Clowney signed two weeks after the Panthers traded Brian Burns to Giants in March 2024.
At 32, Clowney can follow the familiar way while choosing the next destination. He was in the top 50 brown rushing in the NFL last season, for each Pro Football Focus, and leveled 5.5 sacks in 14 games with Panthers, a total of which fell shy at his 9.5 sacks registered in 2023.
Although returning home for the former South Carolina performance suddenly ended, Clowney should still be of interest to the general market among competitors (ie, Detroit Lions, who could use another Edge Rusher at an affordable price). We will see where his football Odyssey will take Clowney next.
In unrelated movement, Panthers also back Jonathon Brooks on physically incapable of implementing a list and excluding him during the period 2025 after he suffered ACL tears in week 14 of the 2024 campaign, his other ACL tears as many seasons. He will have a total of 2025 to heal and rehabilitate the injury before returning to action in 2026.