Bryce Young

About

Bryce Christopher Young (born July 25, 2001) is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he set the school single-game passing yards record with 559 yards and won the Heisman Trophy in 2021. Young was selected first overall by the Panthers in the 2023 NFL draft. In the 2025 season, he set the Panthers’ single-game passing yards record and helped Carolina win its first NFC South title since 2015.

Young was born on July 25, 2001, at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. He grew up mostly in Pasadena, California, and is the only child of Craig Young, a mental health therapist, and Julie Young, a former special education teacher who played college soccer at Cal Poly Pomona. His maternal grandfather was born in Mexico.
Young attended Cathedral High School in Los Angeles before transferring to Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, in 2018. As a senior at Mater Dei, he was named the Los Angeles Times Player of the Year, California’s Gatorade Football Player of the Year, and the USA Today High School Offensive…