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The Panthers are going to want a brand new kicker.

Zane Gonzalez left Friday evening’s sport with a groin harm and head coach Matt Rhule provided a dour replace on his situation Saturday. Rhule mentioned Gonzalez suffered a “vital” harm and will probably be seeing a specialist to find out his subsequent steps.

The Panthers’ subsequent steps will probably be to discover choices at kicker. Some gamers on that record can be found now and a few will grow to be obtainable within the subsequent couple of days as groups make their cuts to get to the 53-player restrict.

“We should assault that, that’s a significant factor for us,” Rhule mentioned, through Darin Gantt of the crew’s web site.

Gonzalez was going into his second season with the Panthers. He was 20-of-22 on discipline targets and 22-of-23 on further factors in 12 video games final 12 months. He joined the crew in Week 2 and missed the ultimate 4 video games with a quad harm he suffered warming up for a sport in Buffalo, which can be the place Friday’s harm occurred.