CHARLOTTE — Football is a physical sport; they know that when they sign up. And it keeps moving, waiting for no one, no matter what happens.

So last Sunday, when Bryce Young walked to the locker room to get his ankle worked on after taking a sack and writhing in pain on the ground for a few minutes, the rest of the Panthers did what they normally do.

For center Cade Mays , that meant getting some snaps with backup quarterback Andy Dalton on the sideline, and just expecting that's how it was going to be.

"I was over there snapping to Andy, and then when we went out for that next drive, Bryce was there in the huddle calling the plays," Mays said with a nod of respect. "So that's when I figured out, OK, he's back. He's good."

That's kind of what the Panthers have come to expect from

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