The Carolina Panthers have reportedly filled one of their coaching vacancies.
According to Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer, the team is set to hire AC Carter as their new outside linebackers coach. The position was left vacant by the dismissal of Tem Lukabu, who spent the 2023 and 2024 campaigns on Carolina’s staff.
Carter would be coming over from the Los Angeles Rams, where he served as an assistant defensive line coach for the past two seasons. He, in addition, interviewed for the team’s head defensive line coach job last January.
Current Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero crossed paths with Carter back in 2022, in his lone season as the Denver Broncos’ defensive coordinator. Carter was a defensive quality control coach at the time.
He also, prior to landing in the NFL that season, coached for five years at the collegiate level. Carter picked up stints as a graduate assistant/director of football operations and defensive line coach at Eastern Illinois (2017 to 2018), a defensive tackles coach at Hampton (2019) and a graduate and defensive assistant at Kansas (2020 to 2021).