The Carolina Panthers announced they re-signed C Cade Mays to a contract extension on Wednesday.
Carolina placed the original-round tender on Mays as a restricted free agent earlier this month. This allowed the Panthers to recoup a sixth-round pick for Mays should he end up signing an offer sheet with another team this offseason.
The move will cost the Panthers $3.263 million fully guaranteed for the 2025 season.
Mays, 25, was a freshman All-American and All-SEC at Georgia but ended up transferring to Tennessee, where he was second-team All-SEC as a senior in 2021. The Panthers drafted him in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL Draft.
He was entering the third year of a four-year deal worth $3,833,075 that also included a signing bonus of $173,075 when the Panthers waived him coming out of the preseason. He caught on with the Giants practice squad but was later re-signed to the Panthers’ active roster last year.
In 2024, Mays appeared in 11 games for the Panthers and made eight starts.