UNC's Max Johnson carted off with hip injury vs. Minnesota

Carolina quarterback Max Johnson was carded off the field with a hip injury in the third quarter of a 19-7 win against Minnesota on Thursday night in Minneapolis Johnson who transferred to the Tar Heels from Texas A&M this past off season won the starting job after a competition with Connor Harold that went down to the wire in the early going against the Golden Gophers Johnson struggled to find consistency but so did his offensive line with four new starters late in the third quarter Johnson dropped back to pass but Justin Wall-E came in from the secondary on a blitz and sacked him Johnson landed awkwardly on his right knee and immediately grabbed it his parents Nikki and Brad watched in stunned Silence from the stands Brad Johnson a former NFL quarterback began his pro career with the Vikings in his postgame news conference UNC coach ma Brown said the injury is to Johnson's hip and that he was taken to a local hospital the team was unsure whether Johnson would travel back Thursday night I hate that Max got hurt for him and for us Connor has got to come on Brown said Johnson began his career at LSU in 2020 before transferring to Texas A&M in 2022 he was hoping for a fresh start with the Tar Heels after an up and down career with both programs his experience 22 starts and 30 total appearances made him an important player for North Carolina to get through the portal to replace firstr draft pick Drake May Johnson ended up 12 of 19 passing for 71 yards with an interception and a rushing touchdown Thursday night Harold a red shirt sophomore who served as the backup to May last season and started the tar heels's bowl game replaced him and was two of four for 34 yards he led the Tar Heels on a late drive that ultimately produced the winning field goal with 144 left PCAT away NJ Howard coach Larry Scott wasn't happy with rugger counterpart Greg shano after the Scarlet Knights scored a touchdown on the final play of a 44-7 win on Thursday night Scott walked across the field and shook hands with shano after the game ended and seemed to say something to the Rutgers coach shano turned around and it was unclear whether he responded in his postgame news conference Scott made it clear he didn't like watching Antoine Raymond score on an 11 yard run as time expired in regulation he said that's not what he would have done when asked what he said to shano he refused to say Scott said he didn't know why shano did what he did at the end of the game but he felt it could have been handled differently and was frustrated by what happened I think we're both too competitive people Scott said and in that situation I would choose to handle it a little bit differently I can't speak for him I have a lot of respect for Coach shano what he's done and what he's been able to do but we're both competitive and in that situation you know just a little bit of frustration came out because I thought it would have been handled differently but he might as well shano made no apologies for the way he coached guys practiced all training camp they deserve to play shano said there was no running it up if it was running it up you don't use timeouts when you have the ball you let the game in that wasn't retaliatory we were going to run plays we bring a team in here to play us we bring them here we bring them in we've got to win and we've got to get reps and they were there we took them Howard had called two timeouts on its previous possession and turned the ball over on Downs at its own 31 Raymond had runs of 20 and 11 yards in scoring on the final two-play drive breaking several tackles on each run shano called Scott a good coach whom he respects I'm very comfortable with the way we handle our team that I handle our team and if I wasn't I'd tell you that too shano said reigning Big 10 rushing Champion Kyle monangai matched his career best by running for 165 yards and a touchdown in the Rutgers win while transfer quarterback Athan cikmis through three touchdowns Howard is the two-time defending Mid Eastern Athletic Conference champion