Quarterbacks changing positions is relatively uncommon. Not unheard of but uncommon. When they do, it’s usally to receiver or maybe tight end and occasionally even to safety. The quarterback-turned-linebacker story sounds like something Hollywood would gin up. But that’s the story of North Carolina’s Chazz Surratt. Came to school as a quarterback, left as a linebacker. And he thinks that gives him the leg up in the NFL.
When head coach Mack Brown arrived to Chapel Hill, Surratt made one thing clear. Move me to linebacker.
“He comes to see me and says coach, I want to play linebacker,” Brown said at Friday’s Pro Day presser.