UNC Football: Larry Fedora hasn’t named starting QB….yet

Larry Fedora doesn’t name a starting quarterback during Monday’s media session

In North Carolina’s loss to Cal on Saturday, both Brandon Harris and Chazz Surratt split time as the Tar Heels quarterback.

Harris started the game after the Tar Heels held a lengthy battle for the starting quarterback position in the offseason.

But even with Harris starting, the redshirt freshman Surratt entered the game on the third series and gave the Tar Heels offense a spark.

He finished 18-of-28 for 161 yards, a passing touchdown and a rushing touchdown. His performance was impressive as UNC seemed to be in another gear when he was in the game.

Now ahead of Saturday’s game against Louisville, the team’s first conference game of the year, Larry Fedora has a decision to make and he’s not ready to make one.

Fedora didn’t reveal who the starter would be for the Tar Heels on Saturday, leaving it open for now.

“We’ll go through this week again and decide on what we’re going to do,” Fedora said on Monday afternoon. “You would think based on what you saw Saturday, whether or not that was enough to make a change, I don’t know yet. But we’ll see how they handle this week in practice.”

While Surratt played well, the LSU grad transfer Harris struggled.

The Tar Heels had punted on his first two series of the ballgame and struggled to move the football overall. He finished just 7-of-16 on the game for 60 yards.

Harris threw two interceptions on the game, including one in the two-minute drill at the end of the first half.

Fedora commented on the Tar Heels three offensive turnovers, which Cal didn’t score off of but is an alarming habit.

“I’m looking for the guy that’s going to put us in a position to win,” Fedora said. “Taking care of the football is still No. 1 with us. You’ve got to take care of the football.”

With Heisman trophy winner Lamar Jackson and a nationally ranked Louisville team coming into Chapel Hill off a tough win over Purdue, UNC will have to be at their best to pull the upset.

That means the offense will likely have to score a lot of points as the defense tries to contain Jackson the Cardinals offense.

As for what Fedora saw in the quarterback competition in one game, he insists that an evaluation on one game isn’t the solution and that he will be looking for more during the week.

“You can’t do it all on one game,” Fedora said. “You just can’t. There’s too many things, there’s too many variables. We’ll see. We’ll continue to battle it out there and we’re going to put the guy on the field that we think can help us win the football game.”

The Tar Heels will return to practice on Tuesday as they prepare for Louisville and hope to get off to a 1-0 start in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

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