Even before Drake Maye’s announcement that he would be leaving Chapel Hill to enter the NFL Draft, the UNC coaching staff, along with everybody else with an eye on UNC football, knew that the Tar Heels would have a new starting quarterback next year. It could have been, and still could be, Connor Harrell, who backed up Maye the last two years and made a couple of impressive plays against Campbell in garbage time this season and will start the Heels’ bowl game against West Virginia. But a coach trying to make hay off his keystone recruiting stretch doesn’t want to start an almost first-time starter at quarterback, so enter Max Johnson, who committed to UNC shortly after entering the transfer portal as a graduate transfer from Texas A&M.
UNC Football: Max Johnson Film Review
