{"id":674502,"date":"2026-01-13T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674502\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:30:14","slug":"panthers-picking-up-fifth-year-option-on-bryce-young-to-tie-qb-to-team-through-2027-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674502\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers picking up fifth-year option on Bryce Young to tie QB to team through 2027 :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan said the team will exercise the fifth-year option on quarterback Bryce Young.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said at an end-of-season press conference on Tuesday that Young will remain under contract with the team through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Bryce has shown flashes of greatness this year against high-level competition,&#8221; Morgan said of Young, who the Panthers traded up for to take at No. 1 overall in the 2023 NFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Young is 24 and will be heading into the final year of his rookie deal. He&#8217;s coming off a career-best season through several categories, including yards passing (3,011) and touchdowns (23). His 2025 play benefited from the emergence of young receivers Tetairoa McMillan and Jalen Coker.<\/p>\n<p>Young threw for 264 yards and one passing touchdown in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/carolina-panthers-host-los-angeles-rams-nfl-playoffs-wildcard-january-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday&#8217;s loss to the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. He also ran for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers won the NFC South title and had their first playoff appearance since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL playoffs continue on WRAL and FOX50 this weekend. San Francisco takes on Seattle at 8 p.m. on Saturday on FOX50, while the Rams visit Chicago at 6:30 p.m. Sunday on WRAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan said the team will exercise the fifth-year option on quarterback Bryce Young.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[1476,235,260,2567,3839,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-674502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-bryce-young","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-dan-morgan","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115888982310271818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}