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Two major decisions shaped the Carolina Panthers’ 2023 season.
In January, the Panthers hired former Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich to spearhead their rebuild and guide the development of a franchise quarterback.
In April, after trading up from the ninth to the first overall pick of the 2023 NFL Draft, the Panthers selected quarterback Bryce Young.
The confluence of moves – new-to-the-building head coach overseeing rookie quarterback – is not uncommon. In the last 10 years alone, 10 of 32 first-round quarterback selections joined franchises the same year their head coach did, a Yahoo Sports analysis of Pro Football Reference data found.
In a vacuum, Young’s experience this week isn’t wholly atypical either: In the last 10 years, Young is the 14th first-round rookie quarterback whose head coach did not survive until Year 2. Five, including Young, lost their head coach before rookie year even ended.
But in only two other instances the last decade has a rookie first-round quarterback’s first-year coach not survived past one campaign. In one of those instances, a rookie first overall pick lost his coach midseason as Young now has.
The Panthers would be wise to consider what worked for the Jacksonville Jaguars saving Trevor Lawrence, as well as what doomed the Arizona Cardinals and Josh Rosen, as they decide next steps to support Young and the franchise.
“The product on the field is just not good enough right now; it just isn’t,” Panthers team owner David Tepper said Tuesday morning in a media conference. “We have to try to make every one of those phases better, and whatever it takes to get better, we’re going to do.”
Expect that future to revolve around Young despite his rocky start.
“As far as Bryce Young is concerned, I can say for myself, and I think everyone in this building would share the sentiment: We are totally confident in that pick,” Tepper said. “In the case of Bryce, I believe it was a unanimous decision by the coaches…
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Author : Yahoo Sports
Publish date : 2023-11-28 22:32:02
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