The Carolina Panthers need help at the safety position and there is no better free agent this offseason than former San Diego Charger Eric Weddle. While the Panthers will likely look at the free safety, I’m not so sure he fits with the team.

Based on his factors for choosing a new team to the San Diego Union Tribune, it sounds like he’d love to come to the Panthers. “In the next three or four years,” he said, “are they going to be competitive, are they going to be division winners, are we going to have a chance at the Super Bowl?”

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Given that Carolina went 15-1 in the regular season and ended things in Super Bowl 50, something Weddle has yet to do in his career, the Panthers would seemingly be the perfect to end his career.

Yet, the team already has a free safety in Kurt Coleman, who is four years younger than Weddle. Coleman finished the season with the Panthers doing pretty well overall. In fact, he rated higher than Weddle according to PFF. Coleman tied for 7th out of all safeties with a 9.0 rating, while Weddle’s 7.2 rating was 12th overall.

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Weddle certainly has the more decorated career, having been in three Pro Bowls, and being named an All-Pro five times. Coleman has yet to earn either of those honors, but was the NFC’s interception leader in 2015, showing that maybe he is hitting his prime. The notch for Weddle is that his high is extraordinary. In 2014, Weddle ranked as PFF’s best safety by a pretty good margin.

However, while the Panthers do have a decent amount of cap space in 2016, I’m not sure that Weddle is where they would want to spend the money. Coleman’s average salary is only $1.4 million, and even though he becomes a free agent after the 2016 season, he is still likely to be significantly cheaper than Weddle even if he were to have a Pro Bowl season. Weddle on the other hand will be looking for a contract of nearly $7 million per season according to Spotrac.com’s market value assessment.

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Weddle would undoubtedly be an upgrade for the Panthers at the free safety position. But with Coleman and Tre Boston currently on the roster at that spot, and the cost it would come at, it doesn’t seem like a good bang for the buck. They have holes in other spots that would be more important to fill with the money someone like Weddle would cost them.