Carolina Panthers receiver Devin Funchess will become a free agent this spring, when the new league year begins on March 13.

Funchess’ camp and the Panthers have not even begun talks to extend his four-year rookie deal, a league source told the Observer on Friday. So Funchess, 24, will hit the wide receiver market.

Funchess announced in a video posted to Twitter on Friday morning that he is a free agent looking for a new team.

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Funchess, 24, was drafted out of Michigan by the Panthers in the second round of the 2015 NFL draft. Carolina paired him with 2014 first-round pick, Kelvin Benjamin, in the hopes of providing big targets — who excelled in the red zone — for quarterback Cam Newton.

In 2017, Funchess had an opportunity totake on a larger role when Benjamin was traded to Buffalo that October. He excelled in the next four games, catching 21 passes for 346 yards. But a shoulder injury hindered him through the end of the season, and his production dipped.

The Panthers began the 2018 season with Funchess as the No. 1 receiver, but as the weeks passed they moved toward a smaller, quicker and more versatile offense with the emergence of dynamic receiving/rushing trio Christian McCaffrey, Curtis Samuel and last spring’s first-round draft pick, DJ Moore.

Funchess’ targets peaked in Week 7 against Philadelphia, and then continued to drop. In a Week 11 loss to Detroit, Funchess’ hometown, he had at least four drops on eight targets. Funchess missed the following week with a back injury, then