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UNC receiver Austin Proehl has a clear route to NFL — in his father's footsteps | The Herald

There went Austin Proehl again, zipping from one half of the football field to the other.

He'd sprint off the line, stop, cut one way or the other, then leap high or dive low to snag passes at North Carolina's pro day on Tuesday. As he went through his wide receiver workout, some 20 NFL scouts, including one from the Carolina Panthers, jotted down notes from the sideline.

Standing right with them was Austin's dad, Ricky, a former Carolina Panthers player and assistant coach. Or at least, he was standing with the scouts for parts of his son's workouts.