CHARLOTTE – As they prepare to move into an offseason of significant change, the Panthers will be making another one atop their personnel department.

The team on Monday announced it is parting ways with general manager Marty Hurney, whose contract initially ran through June 2021.

A search for his replacement will begin immediately.

Panthers owner David Tepper said that after recent conversations with Hurney about the structure of the team’s football operations, it became clear they had some different ideas. Tepper was careful to say he respected Hurney’s traditional approach but hopes to blend more of a data-driven process into the football operation.

“I think sometimes you just need a restart, a refresh,” Tepper said. “We did it last year on the coaching side. Maybe you could say it should have been done before on the GM side. Maybe it should