North Carolina’s Bill Belichick has found himself in a very interesting situation as he gears up for his first season as a college football head coach. On one hand, he has what every new coach covets: An experienced quarterback with an NFL pedigree. That would be Max Johnson, the son of former NFL quarterback Brad Johnson. Johnson missed a majority of the 2024 season after suffering a broken femur in the season opener, but he’s healthy heading into this 2025 season and has 22 starts under his belt between stops at LSU and Texas A&M. One would think Johnson would be UNC’s clear starter, but he is coming off a catastrophic injury and only just recently got back to full-strength. On the other hand, one of Belichick’s first moves at UNC was going into the transfer portal to bring in redshirt sophomore Gio Lopez from South Alabama to compete for the starting job. That’s a move that could have easily rattled Johnson, but in an in-depth look at his recovery from that terrible femur injury by Andrea Adelson of
