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Carolina Panthers QB Bryce Young has enormous expectations heaped upon his shoulder after the team traded up to grab him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. It cost Carolina a lot of draft picks, as well as WR DJ Moore.
The 2021 Heisman Trophy winner has impressed Carolina brass with his composure and skills, and the future looks tremendously bright for the former Door Dash driver in Tuscaloosa.
However, is Young someone fantasy managers will want to trust in 2023? It’s always difficult to count upon rookies in fantasy football, especially at QB. There are growing pains. But, if fantasy managers are going to trust anybody, Young could be the one.
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Bryce Young’s ADP: 110.72
(ADP data courtesy of MyFantasyLeague.com; last updated at time of this publishing – ADPs continually change as more drafts occur)
Young might be the No. 1 overall pick from the 2023 NFL Draft, but fantasy managers have been a little more bearish about his stock prospects heading into his rookie campaign.
To be fair, it isn’t so much that fantasy managers don’t trust Young, but the personnel around him isn’t exactly Pro Bowl caliber. The team did go out and grab RB Miles Sanders to handle the run game, and the club went out and brought in veteran WRs DJ Chark Jr. and Adam Thielen. TE Hayden Hurst will also be a nice safety valve and red-zone addition. Still, it’s a bit of a hodgepodge, rather than a star-laden skill position group.
Among quarterbacks, Young’s ADP (110.72) is 19th in redraft leagues, just behind Tennessee Titans rookie QB Will Levis (103.40), New York Giants QB Daniel Jones (103.74) and Houston Texans’ first-year QB C.J. Stroud (108.54).
Young’s ADP puts him just ahead of the Detroit Lions’ Jared Goff (111.79), the New Orleans Saints’ Derek Carr (121.55) and the San Francisco 49ers’ Brock Purdy (124.72).
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Bryce Young’s 2022 stats (Alabama)
Games: 12
Passing yards: 3,328
Completions | attempts: 245 | 380
Passing touchdowns: 32
Interceptions: 5
Carries | rushing yards: 49 | 185
Rushing touchdowns: 4
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Where should you draft Young?
Where you should select the rookie out of Alabama really depends upon the type of fantasy football format you participate.
If you’re in a redraft league, Young is only going to be worth drafting as a low-end QB2, if at all. He might be left to the waiver wire in a majority of leagues, and simply used as a bye-week filler if the matchup is favorable when your primary starter is off.
However, in you’re in leagues which use 2 starting signal callers, Young is going to be a valuable contributor worth scooping up in Rounds 10-12. And, if you’re playing in a dynasty league, Young is going to go off the board, he’ll go in the middle rounds, and in rookie-only leagues he is worth scooping up in the middle to late part of Round 1.
Since most fantasy managers take part in redraft leagues, Young is likely to go undrafted in a majority of leagues with 12 or fewer teams.
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