For Drake Maye, the youngest in UNC’s unofficial First Family, the time is now

Posted Sep 2, 2023
To be Drake Maye: the latest and greatest hope of UNC football; Heisman Trophy contender; potential top pick in the NFL Draft; magazine coverboy; burgeoning commercial pitchman; perhaps the best college quarterback in America. But also: the baby of the First Family of UNC athletics. The little brother, and therefore perhaps the most tested. (AOL.com)

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