SANTA CLARA — Calm, cool and collected? Bryce Young makes the placid Brock Purdy look like a rabble-rouser at the podium.

That’s not what the 49ers (7-4) are worried about when they host the Carolina Panthers (6-5) on Monday Night Football (ESPN, 5:15 p.m.)

Young doesn’t have the swag of Baker Mayfield, the No. 1 overall pick in 2018, nor is he an explosive waterbug like Kyler Murray, No. 1 in 2019. He’s not a dropback savant like Joe Burrow (No. 1 in 2020) or have the prototype hardware of Trevor Lawrence (No. 1 in 2021).

Young, 24, has a skillset that more resembles Purdy, the last pick of the 2022 draft, than he does the guy who went No. 1 overall the following year to the Panthers, who have mangled the quarterback position ever since moving on from Cam Newton.

Young is 5-foot-10 an

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