{"id":134194,"date":"2025-08-10T11:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134194\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:16:19","slug":"how-unc-qb-gio-lopez-mitigates-weaknesses-on-bill-belichicks-debut-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134194\/","title":{"rendered":"How UNC QB Gio Lopez &#8216;mitigates weaknesses&#8217; on Bill Belichick&#8217;s debut roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/bill-belichick-3330\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Belichick<\/a><\/b> &#8220;handpicked&#8221; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/south-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Alabama<\/a><\/b> transfer <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/gio-lopez-46131417\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gio Lopez<\/a><\/b> as his <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/unc-qb-gio-lopez-talks-bill-belichick-staff-2025-expectations-building-chemistry-251353661\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>first quarterback<\/strong><\/a> at <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Carolina<\/a><\/b>, as he awaits the development of four-star freshmen <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/Player\/Bryce-Baker-46138587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Baker<\/a><\/b> and <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/Player\/AuTori-Newkirk-46147748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Au&#8217;Tori Newkirk<\/a><\/b> and the arrival of <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/travis-burgess-46146928\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Travis Burgess<\/a><\/b>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/longformarticle\/college-football-recruiting-where-the-top-10-quarterbacks-in-2026-class-landed-251936421\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>top-10 quarterback in the 2026 class<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UNC lost all but five of its 21 offensive linemen from last season&#8217;s roster, including starting left tackle <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/howard-sampson-46129672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Howard Sampson<\/a><\/b> and All-America right guard <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/willie-lampkin-46082187\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Willie Lampkin<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels added 11 new offensive linemen this offseason, and Lopez&#8217;s distinctive skill set will help the Tar Heels tread water up front until the unit gels, CBS Sports and 247Sports national college football writer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/user\/chris%20hummer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Chris Hummer<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick &#8220;handpicked&#8221; South Alabama transfer Gio Lopez as his first quarterback at North Carolina, as he awaits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-134194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115004190505465313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}