‘The Panthers brought Buffalo’s Josh Reed in for a two-day visit in March, but he chose to stay with the Bills for a four-year, $10-million pact. The Panthers weren’t offering that kind of coin for a complementary player. They were looking at the 5-foot-10, 208-pounder as more of a replacement for Ricky Proehl. Thus spurned, they turned their sights to Johnson, who signed a four-year, $14-million deal less than a week later. For not that much more money, relatively speaking, they got quite an upgrade.’