Every throw, highlight, moment of Bryce Young’s debut on Carolina Panthers home turf

It was 6:53 p.m. in Bank of America Stadium, and at long last, he was here.

Well, to be clear: Bryce Young had been here.

Not “here” as in on this field. Wednesday was his first time practicing on the Carolina Panthers’ home turf in front of fans.

But here ... as in ... in our consciousness.

It’s no secret that Young has been the focal point of the Panthers’ optimistic offseason. Virtually everything that has involved the No. 1 overall pick of this year’s draft has been a story.

We’ve learned he worked Door Dash while he was the quarterback-in-waiting at Alabama. We watched him sign a young kid’s jersey and then chuckled at himself when he didn’t get a fist-bump in return. We reported that he’d come into Wednesday having thrown four interceptions in his first four training camp practices — and head coach Frank Reich fielded questions about his concern level. (Predictably, Reich said he wasn’t concerned about that, but it was a story nonetheless.)

But at 6:53 p.m. on Wednesday, Young jogged through the blow-up tunnel, flanked by other black-jersey wearing quarterbacks Andy Dalton and Jake Luton and Matt Corrall, and had a new arrival.

Here’s everything of substance he did on Wednesday.

Some moments of this two-hour long practice, mercifully, were omitted for brevity.

Tracking Bryce Young at FanFest

6:53 p.m.: Young jogs onto the field. Quarterbacks all run together and emerge after the offensive and defensive units.

6:45 p.m.: The quarterback group, Young included, jogs over to the West end zone to warm up. A bunch of arm circles. A strange combination of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” and Fat Joe’s “All The Way Up” is blaring over the speakers.

7:01 p.m.: A quarterback coach is directing some sort of footwork/pocket evasion/ball security drill. Young is running through it with aplomb. A fan has somehow procured a fathead of Young already and is hanging it over the wall right in Young’s line of vision. He’s gotta see that, right?

7:04 p.m.: Young practices setting up behind Bradley Bozeman, both under center and in the shotgun. Bozeman is the Panthers’ trusted center, and he has praised Young every chance he’s had this camp. He even did so Wednesday post-practice.

“As a rookie, coming in, there’s a lot that you’re going through, there’s a lot to learn in the playbook,” Bozeman said. “He comes in, coach gives him the call, and he turns around and looks at us and just rattles off the call right back to us. And I was like, ‘OK let’s see how this goes the rest of the week.’ And he’s just crushed it. He’s absolutely dominated this role that he’s been in, everything that he’s been asked to do.”

7:22 p.m.: The quarterbacks and pass-catchers are paired up here, running dig routes and quick slants on one side of the field while special teams runs through return packages on the other. Wow, NFL offenses look great without a defense.

7:32 p.m.: The quarterbacks are now throwing back-shoulder fades in the East red zone as receivers and cornerbacks go one-on-one. Not a ton of completions here. The loudest crowd cheer on this drill came after Terrace Marshall Jr. nearly plucked a Young pass on the sideline.

7:39 p.m.: OK, here we go. Young is set to be under center as the 11-on-11 live action gets underway. Fans, many of whom are wearing Bryce Young shirts and jerseys, are on their feet. Optimism abounds.

The output of Young’s first series: five handoffs, a completion to tight end Hayden Hurst, a completion to receiver Laviska Shenault and an empty-backfield set where he stepped up in the pocket and found Tommy Tremble about 10 yards downfield but Tremble dropped it.

7:45 p.m.: The offense has now shifted to a 7-on-7 deal. Some notes: Young loves to throw to his tight ends; Hurst and Ian Thomas both notch receptions during this session and both are emerging as his favorite targets in training camp. And Young has a more than competent deep threat in DJ Chark, who snags a catch along the sideline. (Shenault takes a wheel route for a touchdown during this part of practice, too.)

8:07 p.m.: Back to 11-on-11. Terrace Marshall Jr. getting in the mix. Young goes 3-for-3 this session.

8:20 p.m.: Young is off to the side as Dalton and Corral get some reps. He’s wearing his helmet on the top of his head like it’s a pair of sunglasses. He has a brief moment with Bozeman, who’s pointing at the crowd as he talks, and then another discussion with Dalton. Young seems to ask a lot of questions; his players seem to gladly oblige.

8:24 p.m.: Eddy Pineiro nails a 50-plus yard field goal. Young makes an effort to give him a big hug.

8:40ish p.m.: Young’s final 11-on-11 competition begins. No-huddle, hurry-up offense here. There’s a short pass to Shenault, then an incompletion intended for Hurst, then an incompletion intended for TMJ, followed by a scramble and throw-away. Derrick Brown, who was pursuing Young on that down, wraps Young under his arm as if to say, If this were a real game, I’m gonna need you to get rid of that ball quicker.

Another Chark sideline grab. And then... an interception. That’s five in five days. It comes with 15 seconds left after the offense had driven down the field nicely. The pass was intended for Shenault and got tipped up in the air and snagged in the air by Kamu Grugier Hill. That makes Young 11-for-16 during 11-on-11 time with a pick.

Reich put the blame on him for Young’s final mistake post-practice.

”You get in those situations at the end, so what do you want to do?” Reich said. “You want to take a shot at the end zone? Well that’s what the defense is (ready for). ... I wanted to see what our defense would do. So I said, ‘Let’s just go out there and run four verts, and see if defense plays the wrong coverage, and if not, throw it away. ... I’ll learn from it.”

8:51 p.m.: With practice over, Jeremy Chinn is asked what he hoped the 39,522 fans in attendance got from this year’s FanFest event. The versatile defensive back responds by saying that he hopes “they saw a glimpse of who we’ll be during the season.” A lot of “who the Panthers will be,” of course, rests on Young, who is busy thinking about the future and watching fireworks light up Charlotte’s cloudless sky.