Turner's Take: Sneaky Speed

Posted Oct 7, 2016
Thomas Jackson is a legacy at Carolina: his father David was a co-captain on the football team in the late 1960s. Thomas arrived in 2014 as a preferred walk-on, working his way up from scout team to special teams to now a trusted role on the offense. "The guy's worked extremely hard," Tar Heel head coach Larry Fedora said. (GoHeels.com)

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