With Bryce Young benched after just 19 games in Carolina, the biggest question around his future is where he will be playing next year.
“I’m uncertain that Carolina wants to jettison him,” Yahoo’s Charles Robinson reported on Thursday.
“If the Panthers do [want to trade him], highly drafted quarterbacks who get rug-pulled this fast don’t tend to have a ton of value. You could probably look at the Pittsburgh Steelers’ trade of Kenny Pickett for guidance, which netted the franchise one third-round pick and a pair of seventh-rounders in exchange for Pickett and a fourth-rounder.”
The Athletic’s Dianna Russini had a more aggressive take on Young’s future with the Panthers.
“It’s over for Bryce Young in Carolina,” Russini reported on Saturday.
If Russini is right, then it’s time to start figuring out the cost to trade for Young and if the Raiders will be interested.
”What about the Raiders?,” Raiders radio host JT the Brick asked this week on his weekday radio show.
“The Raiders are looking at Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell. What happens if someone at the Raiders says, ‘Man, we wanted Bryce Young and C.J. Stroud. We couldn’t trade up to get them, now we can trade for [Young].’”
The decision-makers in the Raiders building who liked Young are gone, but the long-term answer to the team’s quarterback situation is still at the forefront of the organization.
“Several teams have expressed an interest in trading for Bryce Young, despite the fact that coach Dave Canales said the Carolina Panthers do not intend to trade the former No. 1 overall pick,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Saturday night.
“The Panthers have been contacted by certain teams,” Schefter continued, “while other teams have mulled a Young trade within their own organizations.”
ESPN’s Dan Graziano mentioned the Dolphins, Jets, Rams and Seahawks as teams to watch for Young, and a week ago the Raiders would have probably been a part to that last, as well.
The Raiders are still trying to figure out what they have in Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell, but if the cost is only a mid to late-round pick for Young, why not roll the dice on the former first-overall pick?
More than likely, someone will be willing to give a fourth-round pick or better for Young, and that’s a spot in the draft that has served the Raiders well over the past several years.
Maxx Crosby, Jakorian Bennett, Zamir White, Aidan O’Connell and Amik Robertson were all fourth-round picks.
General managers tend to value mid-round picks, so it will be interesting to see where the price point ends up landing on Young, who has plenty of potential and turned 23 less than two months ago.
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It would be just like the Raiders to make a horrible decision like trading for Young. Those are the idiotic things that have kept the team n organization from pulling themselves out of the NFL gutter n back to Ny kind of respectability.
This article is so ridiculous I cannot go on any further – WOW.