{"id":686929,"date":"2026-01-18T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/686929\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:30:19","slug":"carolina-to-pick-up-bryce-youngs-fifth-year-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/686929\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina to pick up Bryce Young\u2019s fifth-year option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"6173705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17687197020215.jpg\" alt=\"NFC Wild Card Playoffs: Los Angeles Rams v Carolina Panthers\" class=\"wp-image-6173705\"  \/>David Jensen<\/p>\n<p>The Carolina Panthers plan to keep Bryce Young as their starting quarterback for at least one more season.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Dan Morgan said Tuesday, Jan. 13, that the team intends to exercise Young\u2019s fifth-year contract option. According to WBTV, the move follows a breakout season in which Young helped lead Carolina to its first NFC South title and home playoff appearance in nearly 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 1 overall pick set career highs with 3,011 passing yards, 23 touchdowns, a 63.6% completion rate and an 87.8 passer rating. Young also led six game-winning drives in the 2025 season and has 12 such drives since entering the league in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/01\/13\/panthers-plan-pick-up-5th-year-option-bryce-young\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">To read the full story, click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Jensen The Carolina Panthers plan to keep Bryce Young as their starting quarterback for at least one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-686929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115917530184271540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686929","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=686929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}