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The Panthers have gone nearly a decade since they returned a punt for a touchdown in a regular season game.

Enter rookie Joe Adams, who hopes to remedy that.

Adams was one of the premier punt returners in college football last season at Arkansas, returning four for touchdowns including one gem against Tennessee which has generated more than 224,600 hits on You Tube.

“I’m the type of guy who can make things happen,” Adams said.

And he’s not only talking about returning punts.

Adams, who has been putting his talents this weekend at Panthers rookie minicamp, said he’d love to follow the career path of new teammate Steve Smith, parlaying a successful start as an NFL returner into a productive career as a wide receiver.

Smith, entering his 12th season, was selected to the Pro Bowl his rookie season as a returner before making four more trips as a receiver.

There are some similarities between Adams and Smith.

Adams is 5-foot-11, two inches taller than Smith, but they but both weigh about 181 pounds. Smith was a third-round pick. Adams was taken in the fourth. They’re both quick. And, like Smith, Adams doesn’t lack for confidence and appears fearless with the ball in his hands.

In fact, Adams gets mad when he doesn’t get a chance to return a punt.

“I hate fair catching the ball,” Adams said.

In his eyes every time he touches the ball his team has a chance for a big play.

“And one big play can change the whole game,” he said.

Smith did that as a rookie.

In fact, the first time Smith touched the ball as a professional in 2001 he took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings in the regular season opener.

Smith added five more returns for touchdowns — three on punts and two on kickoffs — in his first three seasons. His last punt return for a touchdown in a regular season game — and Carolina’s last, too — came in 2003. Smith did add another in the NFC championship game against Seattle in the 2005 season.

After his third season, however, Smith only returned punts on special occasions because he’d become too valuable as a wide receiver.

The Panthers have never been able to replace him on punt returns.

They hoped Armanti Edwards, a college quarterback at Appalachian State, could help fill that void but he’s struggled with his confidence and averaged just 5.5 yards per return last season. The Panthers have already said Adams will be their punt returner, which means Edwards will have to make the team as a receiver.

Adams knows all about Smith’s exploits.

He’s studied Smith on tape, but said working alongside him is something he’s looking forward to after the veteran players join the rookies later this month at OTAs.

“Hopefully when he gets here I can pick up on things that he learned over the years and he can teach me things and use that to better my game,” Adams said.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera believes Adams has game-breaking talent.

The return against Tennessee, a have-to-see-it-to-believe-it play in which Adams broke six tackles en route to the end zone, was the one that caught Rivera’s eye.

“He has that kind of burst and quickness that you need to get away and create,” Rivera said. “You can see him get to the corner and make that first guy miss. That’s where you can see that potential to make something happen.”

It’s something Adams said comes naturally.

“I’ve always been quick,” Adams said. “Ever since I was a little kid I’ve liked having the ball in my hands and making people miss, breaking it open in the open field and not letting people catch me from behind.”

As for his receiving skills, Rivera said that’ll be a work in progress.

After watching him in practice he said Adams needs to work to refining his route running and improving his crispness coming out of the breaks.

But once Adams catches the ball there’s no denying Rivera likes what he sees.

“Once he does catch the ball in traffic, boy, he’s got some quickness,” Rivera said. “He can really make a nice little move and he’s gone.”

“We’ll start him on the outside, and then we’ll rotate him into the inside. Jon will be on the inside,” Rivera said according to Joseph Person of the Charlotte Observer.

A middle linebacker at Boston College, Kuechly led the nation in tackles in 2010 and 2011, finishing his 38-game career with 532 tackles, including 35.5 for a loss and 2.5 sacks. Kuechly had ranked second in tackles as a freshman in 2009. The Panthers selected Kuechley with the ninth overall pick in the draft and signed him to a fully guaranteed four-year contract worth a reported $12.58 million.

Beason, a 2007 first round pick out of Miami, went to three straight Pro Bowls (2008-10) before missing nearly all of last season after tearing his Achilles in the third quarter of the season-opener.

“I’ve talked with Jon about him playing inside and outside, as well,” Rivera added. “It’s going to be an interesting experiment as we go through this because quite frankly we want to make sure we put the best unit on the football field and the best combination of players.”

James Anderson, who led the Panthers with 145 tackles last season, will remain at strong side linebacker.

“We are thrilled to have our entire draft class under contract,” Panthers general manager Marty Hurney said. “We look forward to watching these young men come in and compete starting this weekend.”

Signing contracts today are first round linebacker Luke Kuechly, second round guard Amini Silatolu, fourth round defensive end Frank Alexander, fourth round wide receiver Joe Adams, fifth round cornerback Josh Norman, sixth round punter Brad Nortman and seventh round safety D.J. Campbell.

The Panthers are not the first team to sign all their picks — the Baltimore Ravens accomplished that feat on Thursday — and they won’t be the last one to do so this week as most NFL teams are conducting their rookie mini-camps this weekend. Players do not need a signed contract to participate, but the new collective bargaining agreement has standardized the process, removing a lot of the intrigue as a player’s year one allotment is essentially slotted. With the player in town and on the field — and the process standardized to the point I’m no longer tracking the signings — it makes sense for both sides to get the rookie contracts out of the way.

A longtime member of the Detroit Lions who spent most of last season with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Harris averaged 37.9 yards on 72 punts over the final 11 games. After re-signing Harris to a one-year deal in March, the Jaguars released the veteran after using a third round pick on California punter Bryan Anger.

During his 170-game career, which began as a fourth round pick of the Denver Broncos and included a three-year stint with the Cincinnati Bengals, Harris has averaged 35.7 yards and placed 239 punts inside the opponents’ 20-yard line on 876 punts.

The Panthers released veteran Jason Baker earlier this off-season and used a sixth round pick on Wisconsin punter Brad Nortman. Harris is being brought in to provide competition for the draftee.

According to Person, Panthers general manager Marty Hurney described the procedure as a “minor clean-out” and Johnson tweeted that his surgery was a success. Johnson’s availability for the team’s OTAs and mini-camp is unknown at this time.

Signed to a six-year, $76 million contract that included $36 million in guaranteed money last July, Johnson had 40 tackles and a team-high nine sacks in 15 games last season. Johnson missed the final week of the regular season with a back injury.

Wofford is the alma mater of Panthers owner Jerry Richardson and where the Panthers host their annual training camp in Spartanburg, S.C. The signings were announced Monday.

Bersin will have plenty of competition as Carolina also agreed to terms with three other wide receivers: Jared Green from Southern, Wes Kemp from Missouri and Rico Wallace from Shenandoah.

Others undrafted rookies added were: running backs Princeton McCarty from Idaho, Tauren Poole from Tennessee and Lyndon Rowells from Humbolt State, offensive linemen Will Blackwell from LSU and Matt Reynolds from BYU, tight end Tarren Lloyd from Utah State, and defensive linemen Ryan Van Bergen from Michigan and Nate Chandler from UCLA.

The Panthers set out to improve their defense in the NFL draft, and general manager Marty Hurney is optimistic they’ve accomplished that goal.

But he acknowledged you can never be sure.

Hurney says he and coach Ron Rivera really like what happened over the course of the three-day draft but “you really don’t know until two or three years down the road.” He said for the most part things fell Carolina’s way and they got the players they wanted in each round.

The Panthers selected linebacker Luke Kuechly from Boston College, defensive end Frank Alexander from Oklahoma, cornerback Josh Norman from Coastal Carolina and safety D.J. Campbell from Cal in hopes of shoring up a defense that ranked 28th in the league a year ago.

Will Blackwell, OG, LSU

Nate Chandler, DT, UCLA

Derek Dennis, OG, Temple

Jared Green, WR, Southern

Wes Kemp, WR, Missouri

Princeton McCarty, RB, Idaho

Matt Reynolds, OT, BYU

Lyndon Rowells, RB, Humboldt State

Ryan Van Bergen, DE, Michigan

Rico Wallace, WR, Shenandoah

In 2011, the Panthers used the draft to select two offensive linemen. By week two, they were forced to start undrafted free agent Byron Bell against the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.

By taking guard Amini Silatolu with their first and only scheduled pick on day two of the draft, the Panthers aimed to ensure such would not happen again this year.

Silatolu joins a talented group of linemen in Charlotte, and could potentially start in week one lined up next to Pro Bowl tackle Ryan Kalil. Silatolu, the highest ever draftee out of division-two Midwestern State, is noted for a physically aggressive style of play and solid versatility.

With last year’s sixth round selection Zachary Williams healthy and ready to compete for time at center, along with Bell and Lee Ziemba, Amini Silatolu gives the Panthers four 1st or 2nd year pros with the abilities necessary to succeed in the competitive NFC South.