Bryce Young 'attracting trade interest from several NFL teams' - despite being dropped by the Panthers after awful start to the season

Carolina Panthers backmost Bryce Young is attracting commercialized involvement from respective NFL teams, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Despite his aboriginal struggles, dealing with injuries, and getting benched aft an 0-2 start, Young has entered respective teams' trading radars.

According to ESPN's sources, the Panthers person been contacted by teams astir Young. However, manager Dave Canales has nary intentions of trading the erstwhile No 1 wide pick.

While the Panthers program to support Young astir arsenic a backup to Andy Dalton for now, sources astir the NFL judge it won't beryllium agelong until they implicit a deal. Sources suggest that Young volition stay successful Charlotte done the offseason astatine the precise least.

After Young was benched connected Monday, the Panthers volition apt crook to him down the enactment depending connected however the adjacent fewer weeks play out, per ESPN.

The Panthers are 2-16 with the erstwhile No 1 wide prime arsenic their starter, the worst grounds done 18 games of immoderate backmost selected with the apical prime successful the Super Bowl era.

The erstwhile Heisman victor has a 9.1 Total QBR this season, 1 of the worst successful NFL past for consecutive games.

On Thursday, Young admitted that helium was amazed to beryllium benched. However, helium acknowledged that determination was 'A agelong database of things that I privation was amended and I'll proceed to enactment and turn and amended and beryllium amended at.'

When asked astir trading Young connected Wednesday, Canales said a commercialized was 'not thing we're truly considering,' without hesitation.

While his aboriginal struggles whitethorn person dimmed his light, Young could inactive bring immoderate commercialized worth to the Panthers. However, it would apt beryllium acold abbreviated of what Carolina traded to Chicago to determination up successful past year's draft.

Should helium get traded, Young would articulation a fistful of first-round quarterbacks to get traded successful caller years. Last offseason, the Jets traded Zach Wilson (No 2 overall) to the Broncos, the Bears traded Justin Fields (No 11) to the Steelers, and the Patriots traded Mac Jones (No 15) to the Jaguars.

Panthers moving backmost Miles Sanders backed up Young amid the adversity, saying 'it's decidedly not implicit ' for the second-year star. Wide receiver Adam Thielen added helium is 'very excited for [Young's] future.'

'Watching him signifier today, the throws helium was making, his assurance -- you cognize helium tin bash this astatine a precocious level,' Thielen said. 'Sometimes it's not each that atrocious to conscionable instrumentality a measurement backmost and breathe.'

The Panthers volition look the Las Vegas Raiders connected Sunday.