Derrick Brown: People don’t want to admit how wrong they were about Bryce Young
The Panthers made the postseason for the first time since 2017 last season, winning the NFC South via a tiebreaker with an 8-9 record. Importantly, it was also the first time the club had made the playoffs with quarterback Bryce Young. Young, the No.
1 overall pick of the 2023 draft, put together his best season so far in 2025, completing 63. 6 percent of his passes for 3,011 yards with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He also rushed for 216 yards with a pair of TDs.
That’s enough for defensive tackle Derrick Brown — Carolina’s first-round pick back in 2020 — to call out the naysayers in an interview on Chris Long’s Green Light podcast. “He's our guy," Brown said, via NFL. com.
"We ride with [No. ] 9 all the way through. That's one of those things that people don't want to admit how good he's becoming because they're going to have to go back and admit how wrong they were .
As we all know, people don't like doing that. ” While Young started 16 games in his first season, he was benched after two particularly poor games to start his second year — completing just 31-of-56 passes for 245 yards with three interceptions while taking six sacks. But when Andy Dalton was unable to play due to injury a few weeks later, Youn came back in and didn’t give the starting role back up.