North Carolina linebacker Chazz Surratt has had an uncommon path to the NFL.
Despite being a 24-year old red-shirt senior, Surratt is an inexperienced linebacker by any measure. That’s because he was recruited to UNC as a quarterback and played that position as a redshirt freshman and sophomore. Surratt’s redshirt sophomore year was delayed due to suspension (selling team-issued sneakers) and cut short to a wrist injury after just 10 pass attempts. That wrist injury needed surgery to fix and ended his season. He considered leaving the school to pursue opportunities to be a quarterback elsewhere, but was convinced to stay and to make the rare QB to LB transition.