Tar Heel Blog kicks off its college football position preview series with the most important position on the field: Quarterback. Any and all expectations for the team’s overall success - and the Tar Heels are expected to win the ACC Coastal Division - begin and end with Carolina’s talismanic gunslinger — Sam Howell.
The junior signal caller completed a fantastic sophomore season, eclipsing Trevor Lawrence’s ACC record of 66 touchdown passes in the first two years of play by two. The Carolina offense, directed by Howell, but really led by the departed Gruesome Twosome of Michael Carter and Javonte Williams, was a behemoth that averaged 41.