On The Beat: Position Checkup – WRs & TEs – 247Sports

Inside Carolina's Ross Martin and Greg Barnes join host Tommy Ashley to break down the 2020 Carolina wide receiver and tight end roster in the second part of IC's State of the Position series. The Inside Carolina crew takes a dive into perhaps the deepest talent pool on the Tar Heel roster and examines a room loaded with experienced talent on the front line and deep with talented youth behind the starters. From there, the tight end position gets the spotlight with the focus being onwhich young player canemergeand help this area go from the unknown to a strength for Mack Brown's Heels.

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As with the first two position groups in this series, the wide receiver room is loaded with talent for second year coach Lonnie Galloway. Experienced and proven, the trio of Brown, Newsome and Corrales provide quarterback Sam Howell with a myriad of options out of the gate. The two Ds come in off 1,000-yard season with Corrales perfecting his craft as a big strong target that Howell can rely on in the red zone. Toe Groves and speedster Antoine Green keep the returning talent flowing on the field and Emery Simmons gained valuable in-game experience last season.

Where things get interesting is the addition of Josh Downs. Downs reported with the first group of post-shutdown returners to Chapel Hill indicating that without question, he will be playing major minutes in his first season. Ray Rose, Khafre Brown, Stephen Gosnell, Justin Olson and Tylee Craft can all plan to see the field at times leaving Howell, and potentially Jace Rude and Jacolby Criswell with upwards of a dozen targets possible at the receiver position.

The second portion of the show brings us to the biggest question mark on offense. Even with the explosion of yards and points by the offense last season, tight end was often overlooked and perhaps as a result, experienced the most meeting room upheaval in the offseason. Gone is coach Tim Brewster in an interesting departure and in is place is John Lilly. Lilly comes with an impressive resume to coach a group that wont see the preseason accoladesof its counterparts on the offensive side of the ball.

Garrett Walston came on strong late in the season in 2019 and with the departure of Carl Tucker (Alabama) and Jake Bargas(graduation), he will shoulder the load. There is talented depth, but other than Kamari Morales, on the field experience is nil. True freshmen John Copenhaver and Kendall Karr add depth.

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