{"id":984621,"date":"2026-08-27T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/984621\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:30:16","slug":"dave-canales-responds-to-bryce-youngs-status-with-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/984621\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Canales responds to Bryce Young&#8217;s status with the Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bryce Young<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nfl\" data-athlete=\"23132\" data-name=\"Bryce Young\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Bryce Young\"><\/a> has been in the NFL for three seasons, but the jury is still out on the Carolina Panthers<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nfl\" data-team=\"5\" data-name=\"Carolina Panthers\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Carolina Panthers\"><\/a> quarterback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But entering his fourth season in the league, Young is enjoying the full support of Carolina head coach Dave Canales, who left no doubt about his stance on the former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TmzNnG5lD0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">during an interview with Stephen A. Smith on SiriusXM<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe is right now,\u201d Canales told Smith. \u201cHe\u2019s our guy \u2014 he\u2019s our guy, and I love the trajectory that he\u2019s on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And not just the stuff that he\u2019s growing in \u2014 from just an operational standpoint, moving the offense, finding chemistry and all that stuff \u2014 but it\u2019s also just the critical moments, you know? It\u2019s those games, it\u2019s the close games, it\u2019s the one-score game at the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 season is a crucial one for Young, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carolina hasn\u2019t given him a contract extension yet, but the team picked up its $25.9 million fifth-year option, which would cover his 2027 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Young is to land a massive new deal with the Panthers, he\u2019ll have to at least sustain the momentum he built in 2025, when he posted career highs of 3,011 passing yards and 23 touchdowns, while completing 63.6% of his passes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49725757\/panthers-coach-canales-backs-qb-young-defers-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mike Kaye of ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Young has been in the NFL for three seasons, but the jury is still out on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[1476,235,260,2567,3838,7,6,236],"class_list":["post-984621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-bryce-young","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-dave-canales","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-panthers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117167719942759894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984621","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=984621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}