North Carolina’s addition of a player from another Power Five program.
On his personal Twitter account earlier this week, Antonio Williams announced that he would be transferring to UNC. A couple of days later, the Tar Heels confirmed that the running back has joined Larry Fedora‘s football program.
Williams will have to sit out the 2018 season because of NCAA rules. Beginning with the 2019 season, however, he will have two seasons of eligibility that he can use at the ACC school.
Earlier this offseason, Williams had opted to transfer from Ohio State.
A four-star member of the Buckeyes’ 2016 recruiting class, Williams was rated as the No. 7 running back in the country and the No. 5 player at any position in the state of North Carolina. Williams ran for 318 yards and three touchdowns on his 63 carries the past two seasons; 290 of the yards and all three scores came this past season as he was the third back in a rotation that included Freshman All-American J.K. Dobbins and Mike Weber, who led the Buckeyes in rushing as a redshirt freshman in 2016.
Both Dobbins and Weber return this season, which was likely a trigger for Williams’ move from Columbus.