“Well, I’ll say this, when Russell Wilson came out, I think he had three balls batted down his senior year, you know, Bryce had two,” Fitterer said. “If you’re just talking about Bryce, this doesn’t seem to be an issue. When you grow up a shorter quarterback, you learn how to evolve your game and adapt and see the field and he’s done that. Just like C.J. evolved his game. Will evolved his game. They all develop and there’s certain tools that they have and they learn to play to their strength, and they’ve all done that.”
Fitterer noted that whomever the Panthers choose won’t be expected to come in and immediately change the franchise’s trajectory alone. It’s a team effort.
“It’s not like we’re expecting this quarterback to come in and instantly just make everything happen,” he said. “Everything changes immediately. I mean, you’ve seen it with like Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen. It takes time. And you have to surround them with the right people and you have to surround them with the right coaching, but I think we’ve done that. We’re not going to force this quarterback on the field. We’re not going to ask him to do anything they can’t do. We’re going to ask them to just play their game and deliver the ball and make the right reads and make the right decisions. So for that reason, we have spent time doing that on that No. 1 spot.”
Nine days from now, we’ll have a firm answer on who the Panthers’ No. 1 pick will be — Young or otherwise.