BRINGING UP BRYCE

You can't say anything about his size that BRYCE YOUNG hasn't heard before. Despite all that noise, he's been an elite quarterback at every level. How? The key lies in a centered family that nurtured him to become an exception to the rule

- CONOR ORR

Bryce Young has a body double. The guy is here on set, sitting in one of those tiny, unstable-looking director's chairs, wearing the same color hooded sweatshirt as his doppelgänger while Bryce throws a medicine ball in front of a camera. When Body Double Bryce is not here, he is acting in shows like Grown-ish and Snowfall. He has to give the hoodie back to wardrobe on his way out.

His presence is one of the many little benchmarks that remind the Young family that life is changing. Those changes are both unsurprising, given that Bryce has been one of the best quarterbacks in the country since he was in high school, and stunning, in that he is almost completely atypical for an elite NFL prospect at the position. The set is located at a community college in Huntington Beach, a few miles from the Young family home. Young started training here when he was little he would throw a football so hard at the chain-link fence that the ball would wedge into the tiny openings. His training group eventually had to pay a few thousand dollars to get it replaced.

A car company is on the clock for Young's time on this mid-February day, asking him to work out and throw and just generally exist in the orbit of its new SUV, which is polished and buffed like heirloom silverware. There are more than 30 directors, camera people, producers, set designers and medics who chase people down for COVID-19 tests.

There are enough organic protein bars and Uncrustable peanut butter sandwiches on a break room table to feed all of Young's future teammates, wherever he may land in the upcoming draft.