Jaylynn Nash- Getty Images Thursday is the start of fall camp for the Tar Heels as they get prepared for an extremely important season for Bill Belichick and his staff in Chapel Hill. Heading into the first practice of the fall, here is our projected depth chart for the season opener against TCU. Offense QB # 9 Billy Edwards Jr., Gr. # 8 Miles O’Neill, So. # 3 Travis Burgess, Fr. #10 Au’Tori Newkirk, RFr. #18 Andres Miyares Jr., So. #15 DJ Mazzone, So. RB # 0 Demon June, So.

@jaidenpatterson_- Instagram With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We shut down our look at the defensive side of the football with a look at the room that probably boasts the biggest question marks heading into the season, the defensive backs. The team has to repla

Jim Dedmon- Imagn Images After a relatively quiet offseason off the field as compared to last year, UNC announced in a release this morning that general manager Michael Lombardi has been placed on paid administrative leave, effective immediately. The decision does not come from the athletic department or the football program, but rather UNC Vice Chancellor for Communications and Marketing Dean Stoyer. According to Pete Thamel of ESPN, the leave stems from a HR complaint by a

Evan Hinshaw- UNC Athletics With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We continue with a look at a linebacker room that had to undergo a good bit of change this offseason after some significant departures. Two transfers are expected to start for the team again this seas

Thursday was the start of NFL training camps around the league, meaning 30 former Tar Heels will begin their pursuit of spots on 53-man roster across the 32 teams. To get you ready for preseason football, here’s where we think each player stands heading into their respective camps and if we believe they end up making a roster this year. Eric Canha- Imagn Images Locks (9) WR Josh Downs- Indianapolis Colts LB Cedric Gray- Tennessee Titans RB Omarion Hampton- Los Angeles Charger

The Tar Heel Story With the roster all but set for next season, and the 2027 recruiting class taking form, the only thing left for Michael Malone to do this summer was to complete his coaching staff for next season, and it appears that he’s done just that, adding Jorge Sanz to his UNC bench, Sanz, who has spent the last eight seasons in Spokane, announced his departure from the Gonzaga program, where he served not only as an assistant, but as the Director of Basketball Operat

@uncfootball- Instagram With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We continue by shifting over to the defensive side of the football where we’ll take a look at a unit that provides some nice promise for this upcoming season, the defensive line. Everything in this room b

Jim Dedmon- Imagn Images On Friday, the Tar Heels made their yearly venture to ACC Kickoff in Charlotte as Coach Bill Belichick, defensive end Melkart Abou-Jaoude, center Christo Kelly and wide receiver Jordan Shipp spoke to the media throughout the day. While there may not be nearly as much buzz as there was last year around the head coach and the program as a whole, there were still plenty of storylines that cropped up throughout the day. Here’s a look at the most intriguin

@uncfootball- Instagram With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We finish our look at the offensive side of the ball with the position room that brings the most question marks on the entire team, the offensive line. Heading into the season, there is very little in ter

@uncfootball- Instagram With the Tar Heels just 47 days away from kicking off the 2026 season in the Aer Lingus Classic against TCU, fall camp is just on the horizon. On Monday, the team announced when they will open training camp later this month. Per a release from the program earlier this afternoon, they will begin camp on Thursday, July 30th in Chapel Hill, which is 30 days from the opener. The team will begin camp with a mandatory seven-day period where they will not be

@jjshmunny- Instagram With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We continue our look at the offensive side of the ball with the position room that might just be the best on this side of the ball this season, the tight ends. No room has received more praise this offseaso

@1k.shipp- Instagram With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We continue our look at the offensive side of the ball with the team’s wide receiving corps, which is set to be much more explosive and productive than a year ago. Everything in this room starts with junior

@millennium_football- Instagram After committing to Bill Belichick and the Tar Heels back in early June, one of the team’s 3✮ interior offensive line commits has flipped to another school. As he announced via social media on Monday evening, 2027 3✮ IOL Lauifi Tosi has flipped his commitment from UNC to Stanford following a renewed push from the Cardinal over the course of the past month. This decommitment doesn’t come as much of a shock. Shortly following his commitment to Ch

@demonjunee- Instagram With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We continue our look at the offensive side of the ball with a look at the running back room, one that hopes to provide more consistency than a year ago. The leader of the room still feels like it is going

@milesoneilll- Instagram With official visits done for the summer, it is time to turn our attention back to the 2026 team. We’ll do so by giving you our in-depth position previews for this season where we do a deep dive on each position room as we wait for fall camp to start. We begin with one of the more interesting position groups again this season: the quarterbacks. When the Tar Heels first started looking at quarterbacks in the transfer portal, there was hope that the tea

@chadwillis5k- Instagram While things may have quieted down a bit on the 2027 recruiting front with official visits coming to an end, the Tar Heels still remain one of the hotter teams on the trail. On Wednesday evening, the Tar Heels completed another flip, as 2027 3✮ WR Chad Willis switched his commitment from Cincinnati to UNC. The flip comes after Willis took an official visit to Chapel Hill back on the weekend of June 19th where the Tar Heels did enough to hold off what

The Tar Heel Story After hosting Buffalo transfer guard Angelo Brizzi on an official visit earlier this summer, Brizzi has committed to North Carolina as a late addition to the basketball roster for the 2026-27 season. Brizzi, who was granted a hardship waiver by the NCAA, will play his sixth season of college basketball in Chapel Hill, after starting his career at Villanova, before making his way to Davidson and, most recently, Buffalo. Last year, Brizzi averaged 14.5 point

@wi1s0n- Instagram The Tar Heels have started to add some significant headliners to the 2027 class and they did so once again on Friday afternoon. As he announced via live stream on social media, 2027 4✮ LB Theo Wilson has committed to UNC over offers from LSU, Louisville and Virginia. Wilson officially visited Chapel Hill back on the weekend of June 12th, where the Tar Heels took a significant lead for him, something that they held onto despite his last minute decision to o

Greensboro Complex According to sources connected to both North Carolina and NC State, the Tar Heels and the Wolfpack are set to play a non-conference neutral site game at the Greensboro Coliseum in December. This is a response to the ACC only scheduling one game between the two longtime rivals for a second straight season, after the ACC opted to reduce its conference slate from 20 games, down to 18. Last year, Carolina lost the only game between the two programs in Raleigh,

@UNC_Basketball After not hearing his name in the first round of the 2026 NBA Draft, Henri Veesaar’s wait came to an end last night, after being drafted 52nd in the NBA Draft, by the Los Angeles Clippers, with the pick to be sent to the Atlanta Hawks. Entering the Draft, Veesaar was projected by many to be late first round selection, and after not going on Tuesday night, there was belief he’d be off the early in the second round, but that was not the case, as he was the 22nd