Rasheed Walker: Everything you need to know

The Panthers signed Walker to a one-year contract Friday, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. Walker has started 48 games across the last three regular seasons and operated as the Packers' left tackle during the 2025 campaign, playing all 1,057 of his offensive snaps at the position. He gives the Panthers a capable option should Ikem Ekwonu (knee) not be recovered from a torn patellar tendon that he suffered in Carolina's wild-card loss to the Rams in January.

Walker was arrested Friday at LaGuardia Airport in New York and charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm, the New York Post reports. After he attempted to check a bag that contained a firearm, the 25-year-old was taken into custody and appeared in Queens County Criminal Court on the gun charge before he was released later Friday. According to Walker's attorney, the Green Bay offensive tackle's gun was legally licensed in Wisconsin, but Walker wasn't aware that he couldn't travel with the firearm in New York. Walker is due back in court March 19, and the NFL will likely wait until the legal matter is resolved before deciding whether he'll be subject to any discipline.

Walker (quadriceps) is active for Sunday's game against the Bengals, Mike Spofford of the Packers' official site reports. Walker logged an LP-DNP-LP practice log this past week while working through a quadriceps injury, but the 2022 seventh-rounder has been cleared to play Sunday.