Bryce Young Dynasty Rookie Profile
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Bryce Young Dynasty Rookie Profile: High School
Bryce Young attended Cathedral High School in Los Angeles and transferred to Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, for his last two years of high school football. In his senior season, he was awarded the Los Angeles Times Player of the Year and California’s Gatorade Football Player of the Year after throwing for 4,528 yards and 58 touchdowns. In addition, he was also the USA Today High School Offensive Player of the Year.
During his high school career Young passed for 13,520 yards and 152 touchdowns and was a five-star recruit ranked the nation’s #1 quarterback prospect and second overall recruit. He initially committed to the University of Southern California (USC) to play college football, but later changed his mind and decided to join Nick Saban at the University of Alabama
Bryce Young Dynasty Rookie Profile: College
In his three seasons at Alabama, Young appeared in a total of 34 games for the Crimson Tide. He spent his freshman season backing up Mac Jones. He appeared in a total of nine games that season, finishing with 156 passing yards and one touchdown, on 13 pass attempts. Bryce Young took over as the starting quarterback in his sophomore season.
He finished his sophomore season as the Heisman Trophy winner after passing for 4,872 yards, and 47 touchdowns, with seven interceptions and three rushing touchdowns in 15 games. He led the SEC in both passing yards and passing touchdowns. In addition to the Heisman, he won AP Player of the Year, the Davey O’Brien Award, the Manning Award, the Maxwell Award, SEC Offensive Player of the Year, and was a Consensus All-American.
In his third and final season at Alabama, Bryce Young threw for 3,328 yards, 32 passing touchdowns, and five interceptions, and ran for 185 yards and four rushing touchdowns in 12 games. He finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy voting and announced in January that he would forgo his senior season and enter the 2023 NFL Draft.
Bryce Young Dynasty Rookie Profile: NFL
Bryce Young currently projects to be a top-2 selection in the upcoming NFL Draft, and very well may go first overall to the Carolina Panthers. If you are playing in a Super Flex league, Young will almost certainly be a top-4 pick in your rookie draft. If your league starts one QB, Young is likely a late first-round selection.
The RotoHeat team has Young in the top 20 in our 2023 Dynasty Rookie Rankings, and in the top-3 in our Dynasty SuperFlex Rookie Rankings 2023. Bryce Young is one of those “Generational Talent” type prospects. He is exceptionally intelligent and it shows in his play. Young sees the field as well as any QB I have ever studied entering the draft. His ability to create something out of nothing is also something to watch. His accuracy is also a strength, especially in the intermediate and short areas of the field. Bryce Young is the most complete quarterback prospect in this 2023 class.
The knock on Young as I am sure everyone reading this is well aware is his size. Listed at 6’0 194lbs (on Alabama’s roster), makes him the first first-round quarterback under 200 pounds since Jim McMahon in 1982. In fact, size wise a better comp for Young may very well be Seneca Wallace. His arm strength isn’t bad, but it could be better and a stronger arm would help offset his size to a certain degree.
I really like what I see when watching Young’s game film. There is a certain “IT” quality that he has that is hard to describe. I am concerned with his size, and potentially his durability, but not enough to avoid adding this talented QB. He is a hard QB to comp, and I keep coming back to Drew Brees. If Young puts up anything close to Brees’ numbers his fantasy managers and the fans of his NFL club will be thrilled.
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