Southpaw Stepping Up

Posted Aug 28, 2009
The news that leaked out of North Carolina’s 2008 practice sessions concerning the Charlotte, N.C. lefty was not ripe with acclaim. Braden Hanson directed his high school offense out of the shotgun, so when he arrived in Chapel Hill last summer as a true freshman, learning to take snaps at the line of scrimmage presented a whole new list of challenges. “It was a slow adaptation,” Hanson said on Friday.“ (Inside Carolina)

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