For the Carolina Panthers to win their first NFC South championship in a decade, they needed quarterback Bryce Young to show out against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And this was precisely the sort of big-game environment where he thrived in college at Alabama.
Young's demonstrated tremendous resolve over the second half of 2025. It's not been perfect all the time, but his disastrous outings are becoming far less frequent. There's a fresh confidence around the signal-caller that is hard not to love, and the Panthers needed this more than ever with the playoffs at stake in Week 18.