The Tar Heels are officially off and rolling in the transfer portal and for a second straight day the team has picked up a commitment from an FCS standout in the trenches.
According to Inside Carolina’s Don Callahan, the Tar Heels have landed the commitment of Delaware transfer edge rusher Melkart Abou-Jaoude following a trip that he took to Chapel Hill last Friday. He chose the Tar Heels over Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, Mississippi State and Virginia, all teams he had been in contact with since he announced his intentions to enter the portal back on December 2nd. The former walk-on has two years of eligibility remaining.
Abou-Jaoude entered the portal following the most productive season of his career thus far. He started and played in all eleven of the team’s games, tallying 24 total tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks and eight quarterback hits. He was named an All-CAA honorable mention for the production that he had this season.
This a much-needed addition for the Tar Heel defensive front that is losing six players to graduation and one more to the transfer portal. At 6’5, 260 lbs., there is a good chance that Abou-Jaoude will be a guy in the mix at edge rusher, a position that the team should be looking to add at least one more body to with the losses of Kaimon Rucker, Des Evans and Jacolbe Cowan to graduation.
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