The result in 2025 was a performance that saw Young finish with his best completion percentage yet (63.6 percent), throw for a career-best 3,011 yards, and post a career-best 23-11 touchdown-to-interception ratio, all while helping lead the Panthers to their first playoff game since 2017.
While it was Young's third year in the league, it was his second year within Canales' system, and that is where the coach saw the growth come alive. His quarterback trusted the system, according to Canales, and that allowed him to make decisions within it.
"Really just watching him own concepts, the feedback is really where it's starting to become powerful, having conversations," noted Canales on Tuesday while speaking at the Combine.
"With him, we go through our game plan days, our checkpoints, he and I talking on the phone, making sure we have the things that get him excited and that he feels confident in executing and really starting to—the more vocal he gets with what he likes, what he doesn't like, the closer and closer we get to a real identity of what we're doing.
"And while those things kind of change with the personnel, with the players that we have, that's the mastery that we're after and the more he involves himself and what we're doing there, the more powerful it gets for us."