CHARLOTTE — This is going to be a Play of the Day unlike any we've had all camp, and the likes of which we probably won't see again.

And maybe that's for the best.

The dog days of training camp can drag, if teams let them. The practices are hot, the weeks are long, and no one really knows what day it is, to be honest. So anything that can provide a jolt, or just a laugh, is much appreciated.

So when the team jogged out for the first drill—quarterback and center exchange—they changed things up. Quarterbacks Andy Dalton, Jack Plummer, and newly signed passer Bryce Perkins lined up to take snaps, and at the far end of the line, they were joined by Austin Corbett.

Yes, Austin Corbett.

And snapping to him—one Bryce Young.

Yes, Bryce Young.

"I was like, 'What's going on? OK, sure, we can do this for one play," said quarterbacks coach Will Harriger.

The two were just playing around, according to Corbett, seeing who else around them would notice. Asked if Dave Canales signed off on this new QB (as Canales walked by with a smile at the thought), Corbett scoffed that of course his head coach was OK with it; "He knows, you got to be ready, keep people on their toes."

It was only one snap; that was apparently all they needed to see of this personnel grouping. And Young wasn't facing off against any defensive linemen, they were way down on the other end of the field. But if there's one person on the team who knows what the play should look like, it's Young.

"Think about how many snaps he's taken in his life," joked Canales. "He knows a good snap."

There was still almost a mishap though. Corbett almost fumbled the snap. Offensive coordinator Brad Idzik told him, "Get more pressure (on the ball). Then again, if he got more pressure, he might would've lifted (Young) up."

And as for Young snapping—even popping up in a protection stance as linemen are taught to do—it may have been his first time, but he walked away happy with the result.

"Ball stayed off the ground," Young said with a laugh. "That's all that matters."

Young quickly took back over, finishing out the drill as the quarterback, and Corbett back in his place at center, a position in which he was officially named the starter last week after a competition with Cade Mays.

"Going to Houston with the joint practice and then having the game, we felt like those reps just kind of solidifying who's the starter going to be with Bryce, it's a good time to kind of transition to where he's getting more of those reps versus split," Canales said last Monday of the decision.

"I mean, it was a really close competition, and I think Corbett just kind of brings a level of leadership that just kind of edged him out, in my opinion," Canales said. "So, again, competition brings out the best in both guys, and I was really proud of the way that they competed."

While Corbett may have won that competition, he's likely not winning a quarterback competition anytime soon.

"He's not what I would call a mobile quarterback by any means," Harriger joked.

But if anything does come, Corbett will be ready.

"Got to be ready for anything," he pointed out. "It's a crazy world out there."