When looking over the entire landscape of college football, you would be hard pressed to find many quarterbacks that had a better season than North Carolina’s Sam Howell. On top of that, if you look at all the true freshman quarterbacks, there were none better than Howell.
Despite Larry Fedora being fired as the head coach last November, he still deserves a good amount of credit for re-inserting North Carolina into Howell’s recruitment, even when he was committed to Florida State. Coach Mack Brown secured the deal, but Fedora played a part in laying the groundwork there.