PITTSBURGH — Chad Voytik isn’t offended by the term “game manager,” though the Pittsburgh quarterback might be the only one.

He’s cool with the label as the guy whose main job is to hand off to running back James Conner or throw to wide receiver Tyler Boyd and get the heck out of the way.

Press him on it and Voytik responds by working the word “manager” into answers, sounding more like employee No. 1 than the potential X-factor.

“I’m OK with whatever,” Voytik said. “I’m a roll with the punches kind of guy.”

Consider it a defense mechanism developed from having to quiet doubters who wonder how a largely nondescript 6-foot-1, 215-pound player found himself in charge of an offense that has two dynamic players in Boyd and Conner who are on the fast track to the NFL.

“I have no problem with them getting recognition and I’m just the guy getting them the ball,” Voytik said. “If that comes with personal recognition as well, so be it but that’s not what I’m after.”

Voytik’s journey is about respect, not for himself but for his program. The Panthers were picked to finish sixth in the jumbled ACC Coastal Division under Pat Narduzzi.