Devin Leary

Devin Leary heads into 2021 as the Wolfpack’s clear starter after an unbalanced and injury-filled 2020 season. Leary flashed with 336 yards and four touchdowns against Pitt, but followed that up with an uneven 11-of-25, 184 yard outing the next week at Virginia, then committing two turnovers and producing only one score against lowly Duke before suffering a broken leg which required surgical repair. These ebbs and flows mirror Leary’s freshman season where he shows potential before crashing back down, so finding some level of consistency will be Leary’s biggest need. He’s got a solid recruiting pedigree and as high of a ceiling as you’ll find in the ACC’s second-tier of quarterbacks, it’s just a question of whether it comes together weekly. Not helping his cause is a lack of wide receiver talent, but he should see soft secondaries as team’s cheat to stop the ‘Pack’s solid ground game. Leary is likely best served as a matchup dependent target.