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Greg, we're going to stick with the football theme here. It's Monday, January the 12th,

steaming towards spring practice.

It'll be here before we know it.

And Billy Edwards, Jr.

Looks to be a very important piece of North Carolina's 2026th season.

If a few things fall into place, you've had the opportunity to do a bio on him, talk to a lot of people.

What have you really learned, maybe a little bit deeper than just the football side of things?

Well, I think the number one thing people need to understand about Billy Edwards, Jr., is that he's

always been a mature young man. And if you go back and you watch some of the videos of him in practice and in locker rooms and those types of things, it kind of jumps off the screen a bit.

But everybody from Luke Fickle to Loxley, I've really praised him for his veteran leadership abilities.

I know Fickle really talked about how, you know, last spring, how he walked into the

Wisconsin locker room and that really just arrived.

And in no time whatsoever, he was making connections and he was stepping into a leadership

role. And I think a lot of

that is the fact that he comes from a football family. His brother and his sister are both

tremendous athletes. His brother currently is a tight-ins coach at Richmond played for Nick Saban

in Alabama, was part of that 2018 national championship team.

So there's a lot of kind of knowledge and understanding of the game.

Billy grew up around that.

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