{"id":1928450,"date":"2026-08-18T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928450"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:04:01","slug":"edwards-to-reportedly-start-at-qb-in-uncs-opener-against-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928450","title":{"rendered":"Edwards to reportedly start at QB in UNC\u2019s opener against TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate student Billy Edwards Jr., who was considered the favorite to be North Carolina\u2019s starting quarterback entering training camp, reportedly will be the starter for next week\u2019s opener against TCU. Junior Texas A&#038;M transfer Miles O\u2019Neill started scrimmages, got first-team reps in practices open to the media and made it a close race, but ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel reported Tuesday afternoon that, according to sources, Edwards would be the starter for the noon ET game Aug. 29 at the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/18\/edwards-to-reportedly-start-uncs-opener-against-tcu-at-qb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edwards to reportedly start at QB in UNC&#8217;s opener against TCU<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/18\/edwards-to-reportedly-start-uncs-opener-against-tcu-at-qb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate student Billy Edwards Jr., who was considered the favorite to be North Carolina\u2019s starting quarterback entering training camp, reportedly will be the starter for next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928451,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928450\/revisions\/1928451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}