PANTHERS PLAN TO PICK UP BRYCE YOUNG's 5th YEAR OPTION

Just good enough, not bad enough.

The five foot nine inch tall, weak armed qb who went 0-4 in the final drive of the year … gets 26 plus million and we will still need a QB. Getting into the playoffs where he completed 52% of his passes doesn’t mean we still don’t need a qb. Just my opinion.

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I am NOT a fan of exercising the 5th Year Option for (almost) any player. It costs a lot of money for largely unproven players (in most cases), and LOCKS in their fourth AND fifth years as fully guaranteed including for injuries. The proof is our own Ekwonu. We "locked" him up in April and now we're on the hook for literally millions of dollars cap hit and he is out, probably for all of next year while we pay $17.5M for nothing. That's money that we don't have available for our cap PLUS we still have to find (pay) someone to take his place.  Lose/lose...