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The Panthers have signed three potential starters in the second wave of free agency.

Carolina signed safety Da'Norris Searcy and cornerback Ross Cockrell to two-year contracts on Friday and guard Jeremiah Sirles to a one-year deal. The financial terms were not released Cheap Robert Griffin III Jersey , although Cockrell's agency Reign Sports Management announced on Twitter his deal was worth $6.8 million.

Searcy and Cockrell both have North Carolina ties and were teammates before with the Buffalo Bills in 2014. It didn't take them long to resume their trash talking with Searcy having played at North Carolina and Cockrell from rival Duke.

"There has been plenty of it already," Cockrell joked on a conference call Friday.

Added Searcy: "Oh yeah, it started when we got off the plane. We already played together and we carried that relationship over from Buffalo."

All three free agents fill vacancies left from last season and could start for the Panthers in 2018.

Searcy was brought in to compete for a starting safety position that opened up when the team released veteran Kurt Coleman.

Searcy is a seven-year NFL veteran who spent the past three seasons with the Titans after four seasons (2011-14) with the Bills. His most productive season came in 2014 when he had 65 tackles and three interceptions.

Searcy played in all 16 games last season for the Titans with six starts, recording 27 tackles, one quarterback pressure, one interception and two passes defensed. He also had six stops on special teams.

He lost his starting job last season, but said he still sees himself as a starter.

"Situations change," Searcy said. "I took it on the chin and still helped the team and played excellent when I was there. I will carry myself as a starter and let the chips fall where they may."

Cockrell, a four-year NFL veteran, is expected to compete for the starting cornerback spot created when Panthers general manager Marty Hurney traded away Daryl Worley to the Eagles for wide receiver Torrey Smith earlier this month.

"I am ready to come in and make plays on the ball Lorenzo Carter Color Rush Jersey ," Cockrell said. That is what I do."

Cockrell played in all 16 regular season games with nine starts for the Giants last season and led the team with 11 passes defensed. He also had 49 tackles and a career-high three interceptions, including one he returned for a touchdown.

He was drafted in the fourth round in 2014 and has played in 53 career games with 31 starts over his four-year career. Since entering the league he has recorded 153 total tackles, 32 passes defensed and five interceptions.

It will be a homecoming for Cockrell, who grew up in the Charlotte area and played at Charlotte Latin High School.

"It's a great pleasure to come back and rekindle some family ties," Cockrell said. "This is great place to play football. We are not too far removed from a 15-1 season and a Super Bowl."

Sirles enters his fifth season, having spent the past three with the Vikings and will have a chance to compete for the starting guard spot vacated when All-Pro Andrew Norwell signed with the New York Giants.

Sirles has played in 30 career NFL games with 15 starts.

He played in 14 regular season games with four starts last season for the Vikings, with all four coming at left guard.

The 6-foot-6, 315-pound Sirles helped the Vikings rank seventh in the NFL in rushing yards with 122.3 yards per game. In his starts, Minnesota averaged 132 yards rushing yards per game, nearly 10 yards more than the season average.

He started a career-high 10 games while playing in 14 in 2016.

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The Braves have been rough on the Marlins this year Cheap Isaac Yiadom Jersey , in large part because of Freddie Freeman.

Atlanta’s All-Star first baseman started the scoring with his 17th homer and also doubled to help beat Miami 12-1 on Monday night.

Freeman is batting .469 with five homers in eight games against Miami this year. The Braves improved to 6-2 versus the Marlins and have outscored them 56-29.

”The Marlins are still tough, and baseball is a game where any day you can lose,” Freeman said. ”You’ve got to play your best, and I feel like we’ve done that against the Marlins.”

Atlanta climbed one percentage point ahead of Philadelphia atop the NL East, with Miami 13 1/2 games back.

The Braves totaled 16 hits, and the biggest was Freeman’s two-run homer in the first inning to the opposite field against the shift.

”I was trying to hit the shortstop and it went up in the air,” he said.

Freeman hiked his batting average to .316.

”Anytime Freddie is doing what he’s capable of doing, he can pick up everybody else,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. ”They relax and don’t feel pressure to make something happen.”

Six Braves had two or more hits. Charlie Culberson had a career-high four , including a pair of doubles http://www.bengalsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-logan-woodside-jersey , and drove in three runs. Dansby Swanson hit his eighth homer.

Sean Newcomb (9-5) overcame a wobbly start to allow one run in six innings and earn his first win since June 16. He improved to 3-0 in three outings against Miami this season with an ERA of 1.00.

”Anytime you’re playing a team in your division, it’s a bigger game,” Newcomb said.

Three relievers completed a five-hitter.

Jose Urena (2-10) permitted five runs in four innings. He fell to 0-8 at home.

”The frustrating part is not able to go deeper in the game and help the team,” Urena said.

Justin Bour hit his 16th homer in the second for Miami.

Swanson hit a solo homer in the second. A two-out intentional walk to Nick Markakis backfired on Miami in the third when he came around to score on Johan Camargo’s two-run single, making it 5-1.

Center fielder Ender Inciarte contributed two singles and a two-run double, and robbed Martin Prado of an extra-base hit.

ESCAPING JAMS

Only 11 of Newcomb’s first 31 pitches were strikes, but he worked around four early walks. The left-hander gave up three consecutive singles to load the bases with one out in the fourth, but then struck out Yadiel Rivera and pinch-hitter Derek Dietrich on six pitches.

”We put a lot of people on base, but we couldn’t get the big hit,” shortstop Miguel Rojas said. ”That was the difference between having a close game and having a blowout.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Braves: All-Star 2B Ozzie Albies (right hamstring tightness) is expected to return to the lineup Thursday. … Atlanta closer Arodys Vizcaino and RHP Mike Soroka (both right shoulder inflammation) are at least a couple of weeks from being cleared to begin throwing programs http://www.billsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-taron-johnson-jersey , Snitker said. Vizcaino is expected to pitch again this season, but it’s uncertain whether Soroka will return.

Marlins: 1B-OF Garrett Cooper, who has played in only 14 games, will go back on the disabled list after re-injuring his right wrist. The latest injury was diagnosed as a sprain following an MRI. OF Magneuris Sierra will be called up from Triple-A New Orleans. … Rojas left the game with back spasms.

UP NEXT

Braves RHP Julio Teheran (7-6, 4.00 ERA) is scheduled to start Tuesday afternoon’s series finale against LHP Wei-Yin Chen (2-7, 5.75). Chen has a 1.83 ERA in seven home starts, compared with 10.47 in eight road starts, the largest disparity in the majors.

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