{"id":151775,"date":"2022-12-08T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/unc-cb-storm-duck-enters-transfer-portal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:45:03","slug":"unc-cb-storm-duck-enters-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/unc-cb-storm-duck-enters-transfer-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC CB Storm Duck Enters Transfer Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHAPEL HILL, NC — North Carolina senior cornerback Storm Duck<\/b> has entered the transfer portal as a graduate transfer, Inside Carolina confirmed on Wednesday. He will have one season of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n

A 6-foot-0.75, 200-pound Boling Springs, SC native, Duck started 11 games in 2022 and was named Second-Team All-ACC after he finished the regular season with 46 tackles, 1.0 tackles for loss, one forced fumble, three interceptions, and nine pass breakups.<\/p>\n

Duck went through North Carolina’s Senior Day festivities before the regular season finale vs. NC State. He an injured that sidelined him during that game and forced him to miss UNC’s ACC Championship game against Clemson.<\/p>\n

Duck played in 13 games and made nine starts as a freshman in 2019 — capped by a pick-six in the Military Bowl — before facing injuries the next two seasons. Duck appeared in two games in 2020 and appeared in six games and made four starts in 2021. His four-year career totals at UNC are 103 tackles and five interceptions.<\/p>\n

After a slow start to the 2022 season, Duck began making plays for the Tar Heels about midway through his senior campaign. <\/p>\n

“I say definitely those last few plays in the Pitt game really just showed me like ‘Stop thinking and play,'” Duck told reporters “And from that point on and going into this week’s practice to get ready for this game, I was just keeping my mind right and being confident going out and I feel like it carried over to today. <\/span>It’s just a mental confidence. When you have injuries there’s a mental block. And I feel like I’m past that now. I don’t feel like there were any like health limitations, just mental, so I feel like I’m past that.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

UNC head coach Mack Brown noticed a change, too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Against Pitt on that last series where he blows up the screen and then he covers the guy on the fourth down play, I think that clicked it for him,” <\/span>Brown said. “I thought he played like he did before he got hurt … <\/span>I really believe that Storm was so afraid to plant off his foot because it just wouldn’t get well and he had another operation, so he had two. We couldn’t get him to plant and then early in preseason it got sore and had to come out for four or five days. So I’m not sure he thought he was well (entering 2022).”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Duck signed with UNC as a 247Sports Composite three-star prospect, the No. 1199 overall player and the No. 116 ranked cornerbacks. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n