Joe Person: Panthers are NOT expected to extend Bryce Young before the 2026 season

[UnluckyforSome]

1 minute ago, strato said:

With that 26 mil or whatever on his last year - if we want to trade him what we could do is pay that ourselves, essentially buy a better return in the form of s draft pick. 

Not sure about how the salary cap would handle that, but we are probably on the hook for whatever money he would have coming anyway.

[strato]

15 minutes ago, UnluckyforSome said:

Not sure about how the salary cap would handle that, but we are probably on the hook for whatever money he would have coming anyway.

Exactly we are on the hook regardless so if we pay it and they don’t they can sweeten the pot with a little higher draft pick. I think that is the idea and it is somewhat common in sports these days. That’s why I know about it lol. 
I don’t know I could easily be wrong because teams don’t seem to be paying much for Murray and Tua because of the offset thing, but they were released and hit the open market. I think. 
 

The only real incentive for a team to trade is to beat out potential rivals if he hits the open market.  As far as I can figure. 

Edited May 23 by strato

[UnluckyforSome]

18 minutes ago, strato said:

Exactly we are on the hook regardless so if we pay it and they don’t they can sweeten the pot with a little higher draft pick. I think that is the idea and it is somewhat common in sports these days. That’s why I know about it lol. 
I don’t know I could easily be wrong because teams don’t seem to be paying much for Murray and Tua because of the offset thing, but they were released and hit the open market. I think. 
 

The only real incentive for a team to trade is to beat out potential rivals if he hits the open market.  As far as I can figure. 

The incentive is always they could be the 1 that is able to extract whatever potential they initially saw in the prospect, while getting that oppurtunity at a massively steep discount. It usually doesn't work out, but teams can't resist the fool's gold allure of it all.

[strato]

6 minutes ago, UnluckyforSome said:

The incentive is always they could be the 1 that is able to extract whatever potential they initially saw in the prospect, while getting that oppurtunity at a massively steep discount. It usually doesn't work out, but teams can't resist the fool's gold allure of it all.

Yeah there is that. If that puts the interest at a level where there are multiple teams with that on their mind you can trade him. A solitary team or one with only a mild case of they can fix him, can wait for his release. 
 

It just takes two teams to want him. 

[CPF4LIFE]

He has to have a great year not a great few games...probably gonna have to finish with a winning record too for the first time as well. Front office has all the leverage, havent got much on the return for trading up in the draft no matter what bryce fans want to say. They have no reason to offer an extension right now. All the talk about his personality is just deflection off the talk about money. You can be the nicest guy in the world, it doesnt win games or make you a top 10 QB. They know that, spending all that money on the O line and drafting multiple offensive players in the first round of past drafts says a QB should have better production than what we have seen so far. We have to lean on a run game more to be productive in games rather than a qb we traded up to no.1 for. You can easily draft a more talented QB on a cheaper contract and get the same results bryce has given you so far. Thats the truth.

[electro's horse]

Went to target this morning and picked up some Bryce

 

[bandu]

we have already seen what happens to  Bryce Young when he does not have the right protection/oLine ,wide recieves,coaches ,etc so now go add up everything Bryce Young will need on offense year in & year out to actually have a chance to succeed & then add in on top of that what you will also have to pay Bryce Young ? 

& then due to his size Bryce Young runs a much greater chance of being injured 

so does it really make sense to do this long term or just simply just go get a better Qb ?

...just saying 

[DeAngelo Beason]

If there has ever been a player in the history of this team that needs to earn an extension it's Bryce Young.  So far he has not.  The media can gaslight us and him all it wants, but this dude has had only a few games in his entire career where he performed at an acceptable level.

[electro's horse]

[strato]

15 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

Yeah.  What we have been trying to tell people for over three years now. 

[SmokinwithWilly]

On 5/23/2026 at 1:34 PM, strato said:

Exactly we are on the hook regardless so if we pay it and they don’t they can sweeten the pot with a little higher draft pick. I think that is the idea and it is somewhat common in sports these days. That’s why I know about it lol. 
I don’t know I could easily be wrong because teams don’t seem to be paying much for Murray and Tua because of the offset thing, but they were released and hit the open market. I think. 
 

The only real incentive for a team to trade is to beat out potential rivals if he hits the open market.  As far as I can figure. 

Atlanta should offer the most potential in a trading partner. After what he's done in the sphincter dome, that's gotta be worth 2 1sts and a 2nd or 2. 

[strato]

Sphincter dome lol. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

Bryce Young ...

Glass-half-full: Has improved quite a bit during his three-year career. At his best, he combines Prestige-level magician ability when the play breaks down and has some borderline erotic advanced metrics throwing downfield. Still only 24 in an offense that hasn't exactly surrounded him with a top-10 supporting cast over the years.

Glass-half-empty: Pretty much every efficiency stat we care about says he's really bad.
https://x.com/ihartitz/status/2059298692381671432?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

[Jackie Lee]

23 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Bryce Young ...

Glass-half-full: Has improved quite a bit during his three-year career. At his best, he combines Prestige-level magician ability when the play breaks down and has some borderline erotic advanced metrics throwing downfield. Still only 24 in an offense that hasn't exactly surrounded him with a top-10 supporting cast over the years.

Glass-half-empty: Pretty much every efficiency stat we care about says he's really bad.
https://x.com/ihartitz/status/2059298692381671432?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

Please give me a new QB