Lessons Learned from UNC football program's demolition of Virginia

J.J. Jones has his best game of the season

I had predicted that J.J. Jones would lead the team in receiving yards, but not eclipse 100 yards. This was partly because Jacolby Criswell had spread the catches out between many receivers and that this year's team didn't have a real vertical threat.

J.J. Jones made me eat my words.

He had 129 receiving yards on just five catches, two of them touchdowns. The first was on screen action where Jones avoided Hoos and absorbed their contact in equal measure:

The second touchdown came with 11 seconds left in the first half when Jones got behind his defender and caught a perfect pass on his back shoulder, dragging a foot just inside the side boundary to make it legal:

The Tar Heel receivers will need to step the collective game up with the loss of Bryson Nesbit. J.J. Jones showed against Virginia that he's up to the task, and needs to be treated as WR1 moving forward.