No. 1 ranked Class of 2026 QB puts UNC football on his list

The North Carolina culture has reached a new level, and the No. 1 overall QB in the Class of 2026 has noticed.

UNC football has landed in the news for just about every station on every platform with the hiring of former NFL powerhouse head coach Bill Belichick. While with the New England Patriots, Belichick attended nine Super Bowls and won six of them, the most all-time by a head coach.

Now that he is at the college level in Chapel Hill, it hasn’t taken long for recruits and transfer portal players across the country to take notice of a coach who could prepare them for the next level of football, the NFL.

That starts with the Class of 2026 recruit, Jared Curtis. According to 247 Sports, Curtis is the No. 7 ranked player in the nation, the No. 3 ranked quarterback, and the No. 1 ranked player from Tennessee.

According to the composite that 247 Sports puts together, he is the No. 4 ranked player in the nation and the No. 1 ranked quarterback.

247 Sports gives him a rating of 96. His composite score, according to them, is .9977, which could make him the highest-rated commitment that UNC football has ever seen.

The quarterback roaring from Nashville Christian School in Tennessee has offers from Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Colorado, and Georgia.

Currently, he is projected to join Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs, but he recently also made a statement that shocked college football. He said, “arguably the greatest coach of all time. Definitely want to get up there and meet him!”

If nothing else, the name of Bill Belichick is already starting to draw interest from some of the top talent in high school and college football.

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