With linebacker Demario Davis heading back to the Jets and cornerback Alonte Taylor joining the migration to Tennessee, a couple of longtime Panthers tormentors are gone.
Davis has played the Panthers 18 times (11-7 record) with 114 tackles, 7.5 sacks, 12 quarterback hits, and eight tackles for loss.
Taylor has been a more acute pain for a shorter amount of time. He's only played the Panthers seven times (5-2). But he sacked Bryce Young three times in the 2024 opener and picked him off here last season. So getting him and Davis up and out of the division will be a relief.
Again, it's one day, the first of the negotiating period, and none of these deals can even become official until Wednesday.
But for the Panthers, it was a very good day, for a lot of reasons.