North Carolina has been a roller coaster of a football program in the last week. They have lost players to the transfer portal, hired the greatest coach of all time in a resurgence of his career, welcomed players back from the portal, and now are losing more players to the transfer portal.
Yesterday, the team received a pair of re-commitments from offensive linemen and today, they received notice take receivers Kobe Paysour and Gavin Blackwell will test the open market and see what opportunities lie outside Chapel Hill.
Paysour spend four seasons with North Carolina and Mack Brown. He had his best year in receptions in his sophomore year catching 29 passes for 324 yards and four touchdowns.
This most recent season, he caught just 19 passes in 12 games for a career-high 330 yards averaging a career-high 17.4 yards per reception. However, he didn’t reel in a single touchdown from Jacolby Criswell.
Gavin Blackwell came to Chapel Hill in the same season that Paysour did. Blackwell had his best season in the same year as Paysour as well. He caught 18 receptions for 239 yards and a touchdown in his sophomore year.
However, last year, he was used sporadically, seeing time in just six games. He caught four passes for 43 yards this season.
While it is never a pleasant sight to see players walk away from the program, we hope to see an equal number of transfer portal players head to Chapel Hill from other universities now that Belichick is at the helm.
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