Bryce Young’s year in fantasy.

Bryce Young took the next step this year after a rocky start that saw him benched.

Let’s take a look at his season from 3 viewpoints.

Here is where he finished the season among QBs on a PPG basis*

Rank: 24th

PPG: 13.7

Names around him: Dak Prescott, Drake Maye, and Daniel Jones.

Evaluating Bryce’s season takes more nuance than this though. Mainly because this includes his games where he came in as a backup. When evaluating him it’s important to filter out games that he didn’t really play in to get a more accurate picture of who he was as a starter this season.

Only including games that Bryce started:

Rank: 15th

PPG: 15.76

Just under Herbert/Tua and above Jordan Love.

The final viewpoint that I think is important for us to consider is how different he was as a player from the start of the season compared to when he came back.

Bryce after he came back from his benching:

Rank: 10th

PPG: 17.75

Above names like: Purdy, Mahomes, and Kyler.

(*in all of these I filtered out QBs that did not start at least 3 games this season)

Now normally I do not like to arbitrarily move dates around to draw conclusions on players. I think if you do it for some and not for others it can get skewed.

That being said I think this is a completely valid and accurate way to evaluate Bryce’s year. 2 gives a middle of the road perspective and 3 gives in my opinion a more clear view of who he could be… which is a low end QB1.

If the panthers can bring in a true WR 1 for him next year then it will be awesome to see if he can take one more step forward and be a true difference maker in fantasy and really solidify himself as a QB 1.