The Carolina Panthers made a bunch of roster strikes on Friday, signing 18 undrafted free brokers whereas releasing seven gamers as effectively. Amongst those that have been reduce was former All-Professional and Professional Bowl working again Tarik Cohen.
The North Carolina A&T product was chosen by the Chicago Bears within the fourth spherical of the 2017 NFL Draft and performed 51 video games (22 begins) over three-plus seasons with the workforce till 2020, placing collectively a Professional Bowl marketing campaign in 2018.
Cohen additionally made First-Staff All-Professional that 12 months, posting profession highs in dashing makes an attempt (99), dashing yards (444), dashing touchdowns (three), receiving yards (725) and different classes.
He led the Bears that season in receptions (71) and yards from scrimmage (career-high 1,169), whereas scoring eight touchdowns as effectively (5 by the air). Cohen added 33 punt returns for 411 yards, each of which led the NFL and ended the marketing campaign with 1,599 all-purpose yards.
Cohen suffered a season-ending ACL damage in Week 3 of the 2020 marketing campaign, which was his most up-to-date contest. After not with the ability to move a bodily in March 2022, Cohen was launched by Chicago with an damage designation.
The 28-year-old went down with a torn Achilles throughout a live-streamed coaching session on Instagram in Might 2022, once more delaying his progress.
It was reported in August 2023 that Cohen was wholesome and prepared for NFL exercises.
He signed with the Panthers’ apply squad in September, was positioned on injured reserve in November with a hamstring subject and re-activated in December however by no means performed in a sport with Carolina.
