The Carolina Panthers have re-signed long snapper J.J. Jansen to a four-year contract extension and linebacker Jason Phillips to a one-year extension.
The team announced the deals Wednesday. Financial terms of the deals were not released.
Both players were set to become restricted free agents on March 13.
Jansen has had only one bad snap in three seasons with Carolina.
He has handled snapping duties on more than 400 punts, field goals and extra points since being acquired in 2009 in a trade with the Packers.
Jansen's agent Paul Sheehy says, "J.J. wanted to get this done before free agency and he's certainly excited about returning to the Panthers."
Phillips played in four games last season for Carolina and notched three tackles before being placed on injured reserve with a calf injury.
BEARS: Chicago has hired Tim Holt as its offensive line coach.
The move completes the coaching staff for next season. Holt takes over for Mike Tice, who was promoted to offensive coordinator after the departure of Mike Martz.
Tice was widely credited with getting the most out of an undermanned line the past two years and still figures to play a big role with that unit.
Holt spent the past three years on Tampa Bay's staff, serving as the assistant offensive line coach last season and as an offensive assistant in 2010. He joined the Buccaneers as a coaching intern in 2009. He also coached for 14 years on the college level.
CARDINALS: Arizona has moved Mike McNulty to quarterbacks coach and hired longtime NFL quarterback Frank Reich to coach wide receivers.
McNulty replaces Chris Miller, who was fired after last season. McNulty had been Arizona's wide receivers coach the past three seasons.
Reich spent the last six seasons on the staff of the Indianapolis Colts, the last one as wide receivers coach.
Reich spent 14 years in the NFL as a quarterback, nine of them with the Buffalo Bills. He was quarterbacks coach for the Colts in 2009-10 before switching to the wide receiver responsibilities last season.
COLTS: Indianapolis has promoted Tom Telesco to vice president of football operations.
Telesco has spent the past six seasons as Indy's director of player personnel.
He's one of the few holdovers Indianapolis is keeping around in a major housecleaning project that already has claimed the jobs of vice chairman Bill Polian, general manager Chris Polian, coach Jim Caldwell and most of Caldwell's staff.
Telesco joined the Colts in 1998 as a scout. He climbed the ranks and after the 2005 season was named director of player personnel. Telescobegan his career as a scouting assistant with Carolina in 1995 and was a summer intern in Buffalo from 1991-94.
RAIDERS: Former offensive coordinator Al Saunders will remain on the coaching staff as a senior offensive assistant.
The team announced that Saunders will be on new coach Dennis Allen's staff in 2012. Saunders was offensive coordinator under Hue Jackson last season.
The Raiders had previously hired Greg Knapp to be offensive coordinator even though Saunders was still under contract.
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