Euwell to play for rest of 2010

Published Oct. 18, 2010 10:06 a.m. ET

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Linwan Euwell has been cleared to play football at North Carolina for the rest of the season, but Kendric Burney has encountered a problem that could keep him out past his NCAA suspension point.

Euwell is a reserve junior defensive end and sat out North Carolina's first five games while his eligibility status was determined by the NCAA and school officials. He made his season's debut in last night's game at Virginia.

He is the seventh North Carolina player cleared to play this season after investigations into the program by the NCAA for possible illegal contact with an agent and a school investigation into academic impropriety.

Burney, a starting senior cornerback, was scheduled to have his six-game suspension end after the Virginia game. Dick Baddour, the athletics director at UNC, said yesterday that Burney still has an unresolved issue relating to the two investigations that could keep him off the playing field indefinitely.

"I don't know that I would term it a setback," Baddour said yesterday. "There have been multiple issues (with Burney). We've been working on them for some time. We had hoped that all of those issues would be resolved by this time, but that hasn't happened, unfortunately."

Junior safety Brian Gupton will miss the rest of the season because he is ineligible, Baddour said. Gupton hasn't played all season.