Tar Heels steal offensive tackle from North Texas in transfer portal
There weren’t a lot of late-season wins for the UNC football team last year.
The Tar Heels gave their fans plenty of hope with a 6-0 start, beating Five Power 5 opponents in their first six games. While none of those teams finished the year great, those are five, hard-fought wins.
Carolina got hit even harder in the offseason, seeing several player transfer out. One of UNC’s greatest transfer portal losses was Diego Pounds, its 2023 starting left tackle.
After a rough week-and-a-half in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heel are nabbing some victories on the recruiting trail.
Their greatest transfer portal win, besides the addition of former Texas A&M/LSU quarterback Max Johnson, came on Sunday, Jan. 7.
UNC flipped former North Texas offensive tackle Howard Sampson, a 6’8″, 325-pound redshirt-freshman, from TCU.
Sampson went 12-14 in his two seasons as a member of the Mean Green, who made the Conference USA Championship Game and Frisco Bowl in 2022. Though North Texas barely missed out on a bowl game this year, it ended its season with consecutive wins over Tulsa and UAB.
With Sampson and Georgia transfer Austin Blaske set to don Carolina blue next year, the Tar Heels have already done a solid job addressing a unit with only one returning starter (Willie Lampkin).
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