via the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cHis ceiling is currently unknown and I think that is exciting for us. He\u2019s working hard to get himself there.\u201d<\/p>\nEntering Year 4, questions remain, particularly after Young\u2019s slow evolution, partly due to rocky terrain during his rookie season under the previous staff. The QB was famously benched by current coach Dave Canales in Sept. 2024, before returning and showing signs of development. Tills rejected the notion that the Panthers could have a better idea of Young\u2019s ceiling, pointing to the still-growing offense around the QB.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot necessarily. The team is growing, too,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to ascend as the team ascends, and vice versa. The team is going to get better. So it\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Young has shown marked improvement under Canales, but given how vast his struggles were as a rookie, the flashes haven\u2019t met the play of a quarterback who’s proven he\u2019s worth $45-50 million per year on an extension.<\/p>\n
Even though he\u2019s been eligible for a new contract, the fact that there has been little discussion about the possibility underscores where things stand with Young, his development and the Panthers organization. With two more years of team control before even having to consider the franchise tag \u2013 Young is under the 5th-year option in 2027 for $25.904 million \u2013 the club can play the wait-and-see game.<\/p>\n
Tilis said the team believes it\u2019ll see Young make significant strides in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team is better, the coaches are good \u2014 Bryce is putting in the work, too. So it\u2019s all there,\u201d Tilis said. \u201cWe will just see how the year plays out. I think we are all really excited for what Bryce is going to show and how the team is going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thus far, things are up for Young, whom Canales said is \u201cplaying so much faster\u201d in camp this offseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just seems like he\u2019s eliminating things before the snap,\u201d Canales said. \u201cOn his drop, he\u2019s starting to eliminate and evaluate things and throwing really anticipatory throws. … So I love where he\u2019s headed. I love that he\u2019s all in. He seems to be really enjoying it and so we just keep taking it a day at a time and try to challenge ourselves that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the Carolina Reaper becomes the player the Panthers envisioned when selecting the 5-foot-10 QB No. 1 overall, they\u2019ll have no problem paying the going rate. Until then, they\u2019ll keep the Brink\u2019s truck parked in the bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Young is eligible for a contract extension, but the Carolina Panthers aren\u2019t in a rush to lock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[37242,64,63,5351,1257,44,593,19976,85,1236],"class_list":["post-843163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bryce-young","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-sports","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}