There was a time in recent Charlotte football history when a stud scholastic running back scored 48 touchdowns as a junior and an astonishing 53 touchdowns and gained 3,640 as a senior . He then went to UNC and threw a 1,463 yd.-17 TD sophomore year on the ACC. For Elijah Hood— a crushing fullback then, but in 2018 a young man with few opportunities to shine last season on the Raiders bomb squad and now a free agent looking for a job with the Carolina Panthers— coming home just might be in the right place.
Panthers: A home-grown ‘Carolina Kid’, Elijah Hood can really play
