Carolina Panthers will bring in a veteran QB for a workout during training camp
The Carolina Panthers are hosting and working out a veteran quarterback this week.
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Kyle Trask, who spent the 2025 season on the Atlanta Falcons practice squad, will be in Charlotte on Wednesday, a league source confirmed to The Charlotte Observer. ESPN’s Adam Schefter had the news first.
Workouts generally occur after the team portion of training camp practice concludes, and they’re a league-sanctioned way in which coaches can evaluate players before potentially adding them to their 91-man training camp roster.
The Panthers have three quarterbacks on the roster right now: Bryce Young, free-agent acquisition Kenny Pickett and undrafted rookie Haynes King.
The franchise brought in Charlotte-area native and NFL veteran Will Grier in April — but the quarterback retired days before 2026 training camp began. Grier recently accepted a job as an offensive assistant coach with the Dallas Cowboys.
Head coach Dave Canales has kept four quarterbacks at this point in camp through first two years in Carolina. That said, Canales and general manager Dan Morgan told reporters during camp that they didn’t have any plans to bring in a fourth arm after Grier’s departure — and that made sense considering the injury attrition that the team has suffered early, particularly along the pass-rushing unit and offensive line, and thus the need for depth elsewhere.
“No plans right now to bring a fourth guy on,” Morgan said July 22, the day before training camp practice began. “But obviously, we wish Will and his family the best.”
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Trask, 28, and Canales have a history together. Trask, a four-year player for the Florida Gators, was drafted in the second round of the 2021 draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was there, in fact, in 2023 — when Canales was the offensive coordinator and was competing for the starting job with Baker Mayfield.
Mayfield ultimately won the job and had a breakout year, and Mayfield’s success, in part, catapulted Canales to the head coaching job with Carolina.
In addition to Canales, Trask also has familiarity working with a bevy of Panthers offensive assistants, including run game coordinator Harold Goodwin, offensive line coach Joe Gilbert and offensive coordinator (and newly minted play-caller) Brad Idzik.
Now entering his sixth NFL season, Trask has played in seven NFL games and has yet to notch a start, according to Pro Football Reference.
The Panthers play an extra game this preseason — the Hall of Fame game in Canton against the Arizona Cardinals — on Aug. 6. That’s a few days before Panthers legend Luke Kuechly gets inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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