Young Skill Players Emerging as Weapons for UNC Quarterback Gio Lopez

Posted Oct 29, 2025
For the fifth time in seven games this season, UNC’s leading receiver was someone new on Saturday. While names that Tar Heel fans have grown accustomed to seeing, like Jordan Shipp and Kobe Paysour, have routinely filled the box score, Gio Lopez‘s leading target last week was a name and number few North Carolina fans recognized: Madrid Tucker. (Inside Carolina)

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