Panthers Sign Former Pittsburgh Steelers Wide Receiver
The Carolina Panthers have signed former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver T.J. Luther to their practice squad, the team announced on Wednesday.
Luther, 24, was signed by the Steelers on Aug. 14 of this year and played in the team’s final two preseason games. He played five snaps of offense, and was targeted once, and incompletion in the end zone on a pass from Justin Fields. He was released on Aug. 26.
“I definitely feel like I could’ve came down with that one." — #Steelers WR T.J. Luther on his missed connection with Justin Fields. pic.twitter.com/DxA4VouXRa
— Alan Saunders (@ASaunders_PGH) August 18, 2024
Since his release by the Steelers, Luther spent five weeks on the practice squad of the Green Bay Packers from Sept. 10 to Oct. 19.
A 5-foot-11, 180-pound Arcadia, Florida native, Luther originally attended Wofford College before transferring to Gardner-Webb for his final two collegiate seasons. He joined the Jets as an undrafted free agent last spring, and played in four preseason games with New York last summer, but did not record any statistics in 33 offensive snaps.
Luther was released by the Jets after training camp, and caught on for two stints with the New England Patriots practice squad, first from Sept. 1 to Oct. 18 and then from Nov. 7 to the end of the season. He did not play in any games for New England. Luther re-signed with the Patriots for the 2024 season, but was released on June 6.
As a redshirt senior at Gardner-Webb in 2022, Luther caught 55 passes for 1,035 yards and seven touchdowns and was a first-team All-Big South wide receiver. In 2021, he was an all-conference kickoff returner, with seven returns for 179 yards in addition to his 23 receptions for 384 yards and four touchdowns.
Prior to transferring to GWU, Luther spent three seasons at Wofford. His best season was in 2019, when he started seven games and caught 19 passes for 447 yards and three touchdowns, helping the Terriers to an FCS playoffs berth.
Luther showed solid explosiveness in pre-draft testing, putting up a 39-inch vertical and a 10-foot-7 broad jump. He ran a 4.5-second 40-yard dash and had an overall 5.86 Relative Athletic Score out of 10.
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