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On Saturday, the Buffalo Bills signed cornerback Captain Munnerlyn, and on Tuesday and Wednesday, he will get the chance to stick it to his old Carolina Panthers team.
Munnerlyn, who was cut by the Panthers back in February, is looking forward to Buffalo's joint practices with Carolina this week:
“I'm definitely going to have a little edge on me,” Munnerlyn said, according to Vic Carucci of The Buffalo News. “But at the same time, I'm going to be smart about it. But I'm going to make some plays. You can guarantee when I make the plays, they're going to know about it.”
The 31-year-old entered the NFL with the Panthers as a seventh-round draft pick out of South Carolina back in 2009 and had two separate stints in Carolina, but his most recent one did not exactly end amicably.
Munnerlyn signed a four-year deal to return to the Panthers in 2017, but the team released him just before his third season:
“It was disappointing because I always played my contracts out,” he said. “A seventh-round pick, to make it 10 years in the league is already a blessing, but the first time I got released was then and it was disappointing because I felt like I could have still helped those guys out a lot. I feel like I'm still young, I've got a lot of football left in me.”
Munnerlyn is coming off of a 2018 campaign in which he played all 16 games and registered 47 tackles, a couple of sacks, an interception, a fumble recovery and nine passes defended.
In between his two stints with Carolina, he spent three seasons with the Minnesota Vikings.
