Panthers bench QB Bryce Young, former No. 1 pick, after dismal start to season

The winless Carolina Panthers benched struggling quarterback Bryce Younger, the No. 1 choose within the 2023 NFL Draft, in favor of veteran Andy Dalton, the staff introduced Monday.

Following the Panthers’ 26-3 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday in Week 2, Carolina coach Dave Canales endorsed Younger as “our quarterback.” However lower than 24 hours later, that stance modified.

“That is the very best resolution for our group, our staff, going ahead,” Canales mentioned Monday. “I simply owe it to all the fellows, the coaches, the employees, the gamers, everyone concerned to be actually vital about what we placed on movie, about what I’m seeing and to ensure that I’m continually making the very best resolution for the staff each week. And it occurs to be the quarterback place and so it’s loaded that manner, nevertheless it’s each place and it’s all the fellows.”

Younger, final 12 months’s prime choose after a stellar school profession at Alabama, has struggled to up his recreation on Sundays. Via two video games this 12 months, he has the bottom QB ranking (44.1) of any starter within the NFL. He is thrown three interceptions with no touchdowns in Carolina’s opening two losses.

He began 16 video games of the Panthers’ woeful 2-15 marketing campaign final 12 months.

Dalton shall be underneath middle when the Panthers go to the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 3. The 37-year-old had been the long-time quarterback in Cincinnati, main the Bengals to the playoffs 4 occasions and incomes Professional Bowl honors thrice.

Since leaving the Bengals earlier than the 2020 season, he is began in simply 30 video games with 4 groups over slightly greater than 4 seasons.

“I wasn’t certain if I used to be going to get to start out once more,” Dalton informed members of the media Monday. “I am actually trying ahead to it. I am enthusiastic about what’s forward. It is a powerful scenario. I have been on either side of it. It is exhausting on everyone. However for me, I am trying ahead to it.”