Bryce Young - 2025 Fantasy Football Sleepers and Undervalued Draft Picks

Bryce Young is a fantasy football sleeper and undervalued draft pick for 2025. Read the fantasy football outlook and draft advice for the Carolina Panthers quarterback.

RotoBaller Ranking (half-PPR): QB24

Fantasy Draft Analysis: To say the start of the 2024 season was a disappointment for Bryce Young may be an understatement. Up to and including Week 11, Young was the QB36 in fantasy, averaging just eight fantasy points per game, and being benched on multiple occasions in favor of Andy Dalton.

In those first 11 weeks of the Panthers' season, Young didn't have a single quality start for fantasy purposes, with his best outing coming in Week 8 when he threw for a pair of touchdowns and produced 15.6 fantasy points.

In the second half of the season, it all started coming together as promise and production merged into one. Throughout the final seven contests, Young would post 148.1, an average of 21.2 fantasy points, solidifying himself as the QB6 over that period. Only Baker Mayfield, Joe Burrow, Jared Goff, and Bo Nix averaged more fantasy points per game than Young.

Now in his third and second seasons in David Canales' offense, Young looks to continue his trajectory after gaining the confidence that comes with six game-winning or game-tying drives to finish over that Sophomore campaign. Young will have his security blanket back in the fold in Adam Thielen, who produced 449 receiving yards on 46 targets from Week 13 through the season's conclusion.

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— NFL (@NFL) January 5, 2025

In addition to Thielen, Xavier Legette, and Jalen Coker, the Panthers' most prized offseason acquisition is Tetairoa McMillan, whom Carolina selected eighth overall out of the University of Arizona. McMillan has made bad quarterbacks look good during his college tenure, having produced back-to-back 1000-yard receiving seasons and hauling in 174 passes as the primary focus of the opposition.

Young's support doesn't end there, as the Panthers added a second 1,000-yard rusher in Rico Dowdle to pair with Chuba Hubbard to help take some pressure off the passing game.

- Matt Donnelly

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