Batten: Breaking down Carolina’s QBs

Posted Jun 9, 2011
UNC has recruited its share of blue-chip quarterbacks through the years in guys like Mark Maye, Mike Thomas, Luke Huard, Chuckie Burnette, and more recently Mike Paulus. But for some reason, UNC quarterbacks haven’t been attractive commodities to NFL scouts, until T.J. Yates. In an effort to figure out why, I went to Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell. (Rivals.com)

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