Carl is right in the age range of the kids Negan coached pre SHTF.
There's a few panels of Negan busting a couple kids balls in the backstory short. Then his wife bitching him out for it.
This season is fanfare. They're doing an excellent job at keeping it pretty damn close to the comics.
They've also thrown some foreshadowing in for the next season in two scenes. One is not so obvious.
