Did Hall of Fame voters overlook Belichick?
Current and former NFL players share their thoughts on whether voters made the wrong decision by not inducting Bill Belichick into the Hall of Fame.
North Carolina football has been playing musical chairs at quarterback this offseason.
Three people left via the transfer portal and three people entered the country.
Western Carolina’s Taron Dickens is the newest addition to the Tar Heels’ quarterback room.
Dickens made national headlines last season when he completed 46 consecutive passes against Wofford on Oct. 4, breaking the NCAA record for consecutive passes completed in a single game. Dickens finished the day 53-of-56 for 378 yards and three touchdowns, leading the Catamounts to a 23-21 victory.
Dickens, a 5-11 junior from Miami, had a school-record 3,508 passing yards this season, including four 400-yard games. He led the FCS with a 74.2% success rate and was named SoCon Offensive Player of the Year. He earned multiple FCS All-American honors and finished second in voting for the Walter Payton Award, given to the nation’s top offensive player in the FCS.
Dickens will have a chance to compete with fellow rookies Billy Edwards Jr. (Wisconsin) and Myles O’Neal (Texas A&M) to lead the Tar Heels’ offense under new coordinator Bobby Petrino.
Quarterbacks Gio Lopez (Wake Forest), Max Johnson (Georgia Southern) and Bryce Barker (Virginia Tech) all left this offseason.
The Tar Heels finished 4-8 in Bill Belichick’s first season in Chapel Hill and ranked 131st in total offense out of 136 FBS teams at the end of the regular season.
