Bryce Young

Carolina Panthers QB 4

Week 6 at PHI

Wk 6 -- Read as the page opens

Rest of season 185.6 from week 6, QB4 in our order

Opp rank -- at PHI

Avg 22.7 a game in 4 games

Last 21.5 week 4 vs DET

Δ Proj --

This season 2026, PPR, through week 5

Bryce Young week by week, 2026
Wk	Opp	the week's projection	PPR points	completions of attempts	passing yards	passing touchdowns	interceptions	carries	rushing yards	rushing touchdowns	fumbles lost
1	vs CHI	--	31.4	23/37	361	3	1	2	10	1	0
2	at ATL	--	24.1	23/36	287	3	0	1	6	0	0
3	at CLE	--	13.6	26/48	291	1	1	0	0	0	0
4	vs DET	--	21.5	29/41	329	2	0	3	3	0	0
5	Bye
Season4 games, 22.7 a game			90.6	101/162	1,268	9	2	6	19	1	0

202516 games, 13.5 a game			216.0	304/478	3,011	23	11	54	216	2	4
202414 games, 13.9 a game			195.0	234/384	2,403	15	9	43	249	6	2
202316 games, 9.5 a game			152.4	315/527	2,877	11	10	39	253	0	6

Still to play

Wk 6 at PHI Sun Oct 18
Wk 7 vs TB Sun Oct 25
Wk 8 at GB Thu Oct 29
Wk 9 vs DEN Sun Nov 8
Wk 10 at NO Sun Nov 15
Wk 11 vs BAL Sun Nov 22
Wk 12 at TB Mon Nov 30
Wk 13 at MIN Sun Dec 6
Wk 14 vs NO Sun Dec 13
Wk 15 vs CIN Sun Dec 20
Wk 16 at PIT Sun Dec 27
Wk 17 vs SEA Sun Jan 3
Wk 18 vs ATL Sun Jan 10

Our read

Written Oct 17, from his facts through last season

Bryce Young has beaten what we thought of him before the season, and that is the place to start. We set him at QB29 overall rank 227, 168 points for 2026, and he comes off his bye in week 5 of 2026 averaging 22.7 points a game with 10 touchdowns and 1,268 pass yards in four weeks. That is not a small hot stretch against soft coverage either. He is pressured on 34% of his dropbacks and blitzed on 24% of his 175 charted dropbacks, and he is still completing 5.1 percentage points over expectation, QB7 among 35 quarterbacks with 50 or more tracked attempts. The protection is bad and he is playing through it.

Rest of season185.6PPR points from week 6

Preseason projection168projected PPR points

The worry is that last season looked like this one and ended at QB19. He averaged 13.5 points a game in 2025, cleared 15 points in 7 of 16 weeks, and his yards per touch fell from 5.8 in 2024 to 4 in 2025. Our number sits 12.9 points under the average for quarterbacks drafted where he went, about 181, so the season-long case still says modest, and four players in his tier sit ahead of a 15.9-point drop. The run game gives him almost nothing, 6 carries through four weeks, so this rests on volume passing with Brad Idzik still calling it.

Availability is not the question. He has played 16, 14 and 16 games the last three years and has not missed one in 2026. We would start him and watch whether weeks 6 through 10 of 2026 look like weeks 1 and 2 or like week 3 of 2026.

Bryce Young in every format
Format	Our rank	Rest of season from week 6	Over replacement	Tier
PPR	41	185.6	+28.3	2
Half PPR	36	185.6	+28.3	2
Standard	32	185.5	+28.3	2

Wk 6, Opp rank and Δ Proj are this week's, read as the page opens.

Stats from the NFL's records, scored in PPR.

Stats from nflverse and charting from FTN Data via nflverse, both under Creative Commons licences, our rates worked out from their counts.