{"id":79787,"date":"2025-05-26T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79787\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:17:07","slug":"first-look-at-panthers-qb-bryce-young-throwing-to-wr-tetairoa-mcmillan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79787\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Panthers QB Bryce Young throwing to WR Tetairoa McMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Cali Connection” has now connected in Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n

One month ago, the Carolina Panthers<\/a> selected<\/a> University of Arizona wideout Tetairoa McMillan with the eighth overall pick of the 2025 NFL draft. And it’d be from that moment that fans started to really imagine the prospect of quarterback Bryce Young, for the first time in his pro career, throwing up passes to a true No. 1 receiver.<\/p>\n

But that vision wasn’t exactly a strange one for Young and McMillan, who were training with each other<\/a> about a month before the draft at 3DQB in Huntington Beach, Calif.<\/p>\n

“It was my first time ever catching the ball from him and running routes from him,” McMillan told reporters<\/a> just moments after he was selected. “So, I guess you can say we got a head start on our little chemistry.”<\/p>\n

So, what did their head start look like? Well, there might be no telling if there’s any footage of that.<\/p>\n

We do, however, have a little sneak peek of their chemistry from this past week’s practice.<\/p>\n

Here’s the first look, at least on video, of Young connecting with McMillan . . .<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we’ll see a lot more of Carolina’s new dynamic duo this week, when they kick off organized team activities (OTAs) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The “Cali Connection” has now connected in Charlotte, N.C. One month ago, the Carolina Panthers selected University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[204,80,3789,1476,235,260,2567,19,7,6,15,236,5952],"class_list":{"0":"post-79787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","10":"tag-bryce","11":"tag-bryce-young","12":"tag-carolina","13":"tag-carolina-panthers","14":"tag-carolinapanthers","15":"tag-draft","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-panthers","20":"tag-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114573151028489273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79787","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=79787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}