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Three-year veteran linebacker Lester Towns, who started for the Panthers his first two seasons in the league but was limited by injuries in 2002, has agreed to a one-year contract with the team, ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reports.
Towns, 25, will sign a contract that includes a $605,000 base salary. That is essentially the restricted free agent qualifying offer the Panthers made to Towns in February, so that the team could retain a right of first refusal if he signed an offer sheet with another club. It is believed the deal will include a modest offseason workout bonus.
Agent Cameron Foster said the contract will be signed "imminently," possibly as early as Tuesday afternoon. Towns is one of the few remaining unsigned restricted free agents in the league.
A former University of Washington standout, Towns was a seventh-round choice in the 2000 draft. He started 29 games combined in 2000-2001, and posted 207 tackles in those two seasons. Towns appeared in just eight games in 2002, however, in part because of injuries, and he had just three tackles.
Three-year veteran linebacker Lester Towns, who started for the Panthers his first two seasons in the league but was limited by injuries in 2002, has agreed to a one-year contract with the team, ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reports.
Towns, 25, will sign a contract that includes a $605,000 base salary. That is essentially the restricted free agent qualifying offer the Panthers made to Towns in February, so that the team could retain a right of first refusal if he signed an offer sheet with another club. It is believed the deal will include a modest offseason workout bonus.
Agent Cameron Foster said the contract will be signed "imminently," possibly as early as Tuesday afternoon. Towns is one of the few remaining unsigned restricted free agents in the league.
A former University of Washington standout, Towns was a seventh-round choice in the 2000 draft. He started 29 games combined in 2000-2001, and posted 207 tackles in those two seasons. Towns appeared in just eight games in 2002, however, in part because of injuries, and he had just three tackles.
