Local men to sort of a special edition of Inside Carolina podcast.

Like you know, we always have come portal season, come recruiting season, like to do shows with Jason Staples.

Get initial opinions and takes on the players that Carolina is getting into transfer of portal.

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t-shirt.com. Order something. Support local businesses is what we do here. Jason, the portal

has been active for North Carolina. They've picked up quite a few players. And what we're going to

do today is try to break it down a little bit and do five offensive players that they've picked

up. We're going to keep it nice and neat, right? We've already talked about the quarterbacks. We talked about Edwards and O'Neill. We're going to talk about a couple of offensive linemen, a couple of receivers in the tight end of day. We're going to start with Sean Tompkins from Baylor. A big fellow, Jason. Yeah, 6-5-300.

You know, he's not the big, it's interesting to see a little bit of a difference in how they've gone after offensive

linemen this year in terms of the body types.

Because last year, you notice they brought in some enormous guys.

I mean, that was something that we saw and we pointed to that like, wow, they're really trying,

when they said they wanted to get big up front, they meant they were wanting to get big.

But one of the things that we saw last year, some of those guys really couldn't move.

And that was a factor that became an issue for them at different points, especially against the in the pass rush situation.

And this year, both of the offensive linemen that they've picked up are a little more svelte.

You know, Tompkins, 65, 300, not, you know, 345, 350, not one of those guys.

A little bit more of a positional type blocker.

Doesn't have a ton of pop as a as a blocker.

Not as much power as what you'd like, ideally.

He had about, he had 460 snaps in, in 2024, which was his first real year of experience.

He had three snaps in, or in 2025.

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