Bryce Young will "absolutely" start next week against the Buccaneers, Panthers coach Dave Canales said after the second-year QB played arguably the best game of his career in a close loss to the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs.

The Carolina Panthers will start Bryce Young at quarterback against the Kansas City Chiefs this week. Really, that was the only decision to make on a two-game winning streak.

Canales, considered a young, rising star in the NFL coaching ranks, only spent one season as a coordinator and none as a head coach before his arrival in Carolina. But he received acclaim for resurrecting the careers of quarterbacks Geno Smith in Seattle and Baker Mayfield in Tampa Bay.