Tag: JJ Jansen

Panthers LS JJ Jansen ties franchise record for most games played

Move over, John Kasay. You have some company.

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The Carolina Panthers have experienced a lot of change over the last 14 years. They’ve gone through two different owners, three different head coaches and 13 different starting quarterbacks.

But, there’s been one constant—JJ Jansen.

With his appearance in the first quarter of Week 12’s matchup against the Denver Broncos, the longtime long snapper registered his 221st game played for the Panthers. That mark now ties a franchise-record held by Jansen’s old teammate and former kicker John Kasay, who played in Carolina from 1995 to 2010.

Jansen broke into the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Green Bay Packers in 2008. Almost a year later, the Packers traded the University of Notre Dame product—who didn’t play a single down in Green Bay—to the Panthers for a conditional 2011 draft pick.

He’d then earn Carolina’s long-snapping duties for the 2009 campaign and never let them go. Jansen has not missed an outing since coming over, playing in each of the franchise’s 220 regular-season contests over the last 14 years.

He’ll have his chance to lay complete claim to the franchise record on Dec. 11, when the Panthers return from their Week 13 bye to take on the Seattle Seahawks.

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Panthers announce 2022 team captains

Baker Mayfield was voted as a team captain in his first year with the Panthers.

On Thursday, the Carolina Panthers named their captains for the 2022 season.

Here are the eight men who were voted on by their teammates to, well, lead their teammates into the new campaign.

Panthers LS JJ Jansen in line to break franchise record

With no competition in sight, Panthers longtime long snapper JJ Jansen has a clear path to franchise history.

On Thursday, the Carolina Panthers waived 2021 sixth-round pick Thomas Fletcher—the only challenger to the team’s longtime long snapper JJ Jansen. But now that there is no competition, the 15th-year veteran is in line to snap a franchise record.

The 36-year-old Jansen, who arrived in Carolina through a trade with the Green Bay Packers way back in 2009, will enter the 2022 campaign having played 209 games for the organization. If he plays in just 13 more—bringing that total to a magic 222—then he’ll surpass the current Panthers record of 221 held by former kicker John Kasay.

As long as head coach Matt Rhule doesn’t decide to spice things up again with another challenger and Jansen remains healthy, that mark should be broken in Week 14. That Sunday will see the Panthers travel west to take on the Seattle Seahawks on Dec. 11.

In addition to that impressive feat, Jansen has also gone over a decade without a botched snap—with that lone mistake coming in the 2010 season opener against the New York Giants. He was also selected to his first and only Pro Bowl appearance for his efforts in 2013.

So, yeah, Jansen has seen quite a bit here in Charlotte. He’s played for Rhule, Ron Rivera and John Fox, and he’s played on a 2-14 team and a 15-1 team.

And now, he’ll soon see some more history. But this time, it’ll be his own.

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Panthers waive 2021 6th-round pick Thomas Fletcher

The Panthers announced they’ve waived LS Thomas Fletcher, one of the team’s three sixth-round picks in 2021.

One of the silliest decisions the Carolina Panthers have made over the past few years now looks even sillier.

As announced by the team on Thursday afternoon, long snapper Thomas Fletcher has been waived. Fletcher was drafted with one of Carolina’s three sixth-round draft picks from a year ago.

The selection was, of course, perplexing to say the least at time (or at any time, for that matter). Not only was an actual piece of draft capital used on a long snapper, but the Panthers already had one of the game’s most reliable players at the position in then 14-year veteran JJ Jansen.

Heck, even Fletcher couldn’t believe it.

Well, the University of Alabama product would end up losing out to the trustworthy and respected Jansen in the long snapper battle last summer. He wraps up this tenure in Carolina having appeared in zero games for the organization.

Fletcher’s departure will now give way—once again—to Jansen and presumably open up a roster spot for the signing of cornerback Tae Hayes, as first reported by Mike Kaye of Pro Football Network.

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