{"id":63809,"date":"2025-08-07T00:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63809\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:13:03","slug":"bill-belichick-gives-update-on-dl-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63809\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick gives update on DL competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Belichick<\/a> is just a few weeks away from making his coaching debut with the North Carolina football<\/a> team, and that is something that the entire college football world will be watching. Camp is underway for the Tar Heels as they get ready to begin the 2025 season, and there are a lot of questions marks surrounding the team ahead of Belichick’s first year. One big question revolves around the defensive line<\/a> and who will we see earn starting roles.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of starting jobs up for grabs along the North Carolina football<\/a> defensive line, and that is something that Bill Belichick will be monitoring throughout camp. It’s still early in camp, and there is still a lot of competition left.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s that position or any of the positions, the depth charts are really a work in progress,\u201d Belichick said, according to an article from On3. \u201cAgain, we\u2019re in the acclimation period. Of course, we\u2019re trying to evaluate, but we\u2019re not really able to do that until full practices and tackling. \u2026 For the big guys, you know, those skills will really be evaluated much more closely once we\u2019re actually able to do them (hitting) and also make sure that everybody knows what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

One newcomer to watch on the D-line is D’Antre Robinson, who transferred in from Florida. Robinson didn’t get a ton of playing time with the Gators, but it sounds like he has a good chance of earning a meaningful role this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say everybody has an opportunity, but he certainly would be up on that list,\u201d Belichick said. \u201cPlayed some last year at Florida. (He\u2019s an) athlete, has good football instincts. And again, it\u2019s just acclimating to a new system, some new terminology and adjustments, things like that. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be very competitive with that group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belichick didn’t have much of an update on position battles, but they will come. Right now, it’s hard to truly evaluate the lines without the players hitting each other, but once that starts to go down, Belichick and the staff will get a better idea of who their starters are going to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, the O-line and D-line. Because that\u2019s their game. It\u2019s contact, it\u2019s leverage, it\u2019s footwork and position,\u201d he said. \u201cThese guys line up this far away from each other, and it all happens pretty quickly. And without pads and without full contact, it\u2019s kind of hard to see exactly how that\u2019s going to go until you get to that point again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The North Carolina football season is almost here<\/a>, and the Tar Heels start things off with a big one. TCU will be coming to town for a clash under the lights on September 1st. Bill Belichick’s squad will be immediately put to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick is just a few weeks away from making his coaching debut with the North Carolina football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[7025,399,398,396,397,47226,99],"class_list":["post-63809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-bill-belichick","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-north-carolina-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}