Two more AAF players with Alabama football roots are headed for the NFL. The Carolina Panthers announced on Monday that they’d signed offensive tackle Brandon Greene and defensive tackle T.J. Barnes to one-year contracts.

Greene, an Alabama alumnus, played for the Birmingham Iron and Barnes, a former Enterprise High School standout, played for the Atlanta Legends in 2018 before the Alliance of American Football halted its season last week.

Greene joined the Crimson Tide as an offensive lineman, but he switched to tight end before his redshirt-freshman season. As a sophomore, Greene moved to offensive tackle, but shifted back to tight end before the end of the season and caught a 24-yard pass in overtime against LSU. In 2015, Greene saw action as a tight end and an interior lineman. As a senior, Greene worked as a tight end, mainly as an extra blocker and in jumbo packages, but he did catch one pass.

Greene went to training camp with the NFL's Chicago Bears in 2017, working mainly as a guard. The Bears released Greene as they reduced their roster from the preseason limit of 90 players to the regular-season maximum of 53.

But Chicago picked up Greene for its practice squad, and he stayed there until the Bears brought him up to the active roster with two games left in the regular season. However, he didn't get on the field in either remaining contest.

Greene was back in training camp with the Bears last year, but again he was released at the end of the preseason.

Barnes has 21 games of NFL experience, although he hasn't played in the league since 2016.

After Enterprise, Barnes played his college football at Georgia Tech. He went to training camp with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2013 as an undrafted rookie and spent part of that season with the New York Jets.

Barnes made his NFL debut with six games for the Jets in 2014. In 2015, he played in six games with the Jets and four with the Buffalo Bills. In 2016, Barnes played in five games with the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs released Barnes during the 2017 offseason.

Last week, center J.C. Hassenauer, another former Alabama standout who played for the Iron, signed an NFL contract, joining the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.