Diving Into UNC Football's Struggles Allowing Sacks

Posted May 29, 2023
"We had a problem with sacks four years ago, we are still sitting here at 102nd in sacks," Mack Brown said this spring. UNC's inability to keep quarterback Drake Maye upright played a role in UNC struggling to hang with the upper echelon of college football. Maye was sacked 40 times and the results were devastating for the Tar Heels’ offense. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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