Spring practice is the worst. It serves as a gentle reminder that, while there is football happening on college campuses across America, there are still five months before you learn anything of value.
The receiver coming out of nowhere and dominating skeleton drills? Probably more of an indictment of your secondary than the light just switching to ‘on’. The freshman defensive end with 5 sacks in the spring game*? He was going against a walk-on.
*- Narrator: they didn’t have a spring game
So, who is turning heads for the Tar Heels in spring practice?