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Bill Belichick and UNC didn't want a quarterback who's now tearing up the ACC

Chandler Morris wanted to play for Bill Belichick.

After throwing for 3,774 yards and 31 touchdowns at North Texas in 2024, the veteran quarterback entered the transfer portal eyeing North Carolina. Fresh off hiring the six-time Super Bowl champion in December, there was tremendous hype around the program. But Belichick’s new general manager, Michael Lombardi, wasn’t sold. He dismissed Morris as undersized at 6 feet and 190 pounds and doubted his arm strength, preferring Purdue’s 6-foot-4 Ryan Browne.

“You just don’t understand what it takes to play in the National Football League,” Lombardi reportedly told UNC staffers via The Athletic . It was an assessment rooted in NFL thinking,

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