UNC receivers catch on

Posted Mar 29, 2009
Twelve different players caught at least one pass during North Carolina's spring football scrimmage Saturday at Kenan Stadium. The way quarterback T.J. Yates sees it, that's what it will take for the Tar Heels to replace Hakeem Nicks, UNC's career leader in receptions and touchdowns who bypassed his senior season to enter the NFL Draft. "You can't replace a guy like that," Yates said. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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