This list is up to date
Including the last part which ranks what we lost if each individual player were on the roster (counting all the other defections) right now
JMO.
Just an update:
As of right now, Aldarius Hayes will be back on the UM football team.
Take it for what it is worth, from The Athletic by Manny. " Ranking the Miami Hurricanes’ top 30 players as Mario Cristobal embarks on Year 4"
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Miami is set to embark on its fourth season under Mario Cristobal with fall camp opening Thursday on Greentree Practice Field.
The Hurricanes are coming off a 10-win season for only the second time since joining the ACC two decades ago but lost two of their last three regular-season games to miss the league championship game and a chance to reach the College Football Playoff.
What will the 2025 version of the Canes look like without No. 1 pick Cam Ward quarterbacking them? BetMGM’s over/under betting line for Miami for wins is 8.5. The Hurricanes are listed second behind Clemson to win the league.
Here’s how we’d rank Miami’s top 30 players entering the season.
- Carson Beck, QB, transfer (Georgia): The sixth-year senior’s efficiency rating in 2024 (32nd among FBS passers) wasn’t nearly as good as it was in 2023 without NFL first- and second-round picks Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkey as his primary receivers. Still, Beck and Georgia Tech’s Haynes King are the only two returning FBS quarterbacks to finish in the top 50 in efficiency each of the last two seasons. Beck said he started throwing in May — five months after elbow surgery. He stayed busy in spring camp by dedicating a full day to each offensive skill player. He followed them around during practice and sat down for film sessions after.
“Leadership is earned, not given. Respect is also earned,” Beck said. “I felt like to earn the respect of the guys around me, I had to put in work. And that was how I was able to put in work.”
- Rueben Bain, DL, recruit (2023 class): A hamstring injury limited the 2023 ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year and Miami native to nine games last season. Bain produced roughly half of the numbers he had as a true freshman (45 pressures, 12.5 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks). Bain said he played at about 85 percent last season. His hamstring isn’t bothering him anymore. He’s also lost weight — down more than a dozen pounds back to the weight he played at as a freshman (270 pounds).
“I feel really different — I have a clear mind, no doubts, a lot of freedom and a lot of enthusiasm,” Bain said. “My route now is just body maintenance. It’s always massages, stretches, needling, cryo sessions. Even if you work hard, you’ve got to recover twice as hard. That’s something I’ve been adopting lately.”
- Francis Mauigoa, OT, recruit (2024): The 6-6, 330-pound junior has started 26 games at right tackle and played the fifth-most snaps (1,780) of anybody on Miami’s roster. He missed the spring before his sophomore year recovering from surgery to repair torn labrums on both shoulders. He still earned second-team All-ACC honors last season despite being unable to lift weights as he had in the past. The former five-star recruit is considered a top-three offensive tackle in college football along with Utah’s Spencer Fano and Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor.
“There were times my freshman year I was trying to block somebody and all of a sudden my hands would collapse on me. It was awful,” Mauigoa said. “Right now, I’m full go and excited for it. I’m just starting to lift again like I used to, shoulder presses, bench press, four plates, whatever.”
- Zechariah Poyser, S, transfer (Jacksonville State): Beck isn’t the only player on Miami’s roster who has won a conference championship. Poyser, a 6-2, 200-pound redshirt sophomore from Wildwood (Fla.) who was an unranked recruit in high school, had 75 tackles, three interceptions and eight tackles for loss for his Conference USA championship squad. Auburn, Georgia, Florida and LSU came after him when he entered the portal. Poyser said he’s put on 15 pounds since arriving on campus.
Poyser will be counted on heavily to help retool a secondary that got confused in pass coverage many times last season. He was the defensive player coordinator Corey Hetherman designated with the green dot on his helmet during spring camp — the helmet with a microphone used to communicate plays from the sideline and booth. “I don’t know if I’ll have it in the fall, but I feel like I’m always thinking the way coaches are thinking,” Poyser said. “I’m getting better as a communicator, and coaches see me as a decent communicator. So, I feel like they put it in my helmet for a reason.”
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Wesley Bissainthe, LB, recruit (2022): The 6-1, 232-pound Miami native and former four-star recruit has started 26 games and played 1,352 snaps in three seasons with the Hurricanes. He finished second on the team last season in tackles (59) with two sacks and an interception. He’s added 10 pounds of muscle in the offseason and feels he’s better equipped to take on more blocks this season. He bench-pressed 305 pounds and power-cleaned 295 pounds. He said he’s been clocked running 20 miles per hour in practice. He said he can line up in the middle or the outside at linebacker. “As long as I’m on the field making plays, I don’t care where they put me,” Bissainthe said.
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Anez Cooper. OG, recruit (2022): Nobody on Miami’s roster has started more games than the 6-4, 335-pound Alabama native and starting right guard has. He’s played 2,106 snaps and helped Miami lead the ACC in rushing last season. Cooper arrived at Miami as a three-star recruit (No. 1,150) weighing more than 380 pounds. He lost another 15 pounds between the end of last season and this summer. “I had to realize I was no kid anymore,” Cooper said. “If I want to be a professional, I need to act like a professional.”
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Mohamed Toure, LB, transfer (Rutgers): The 6-2, 236-pound New Jersey native and seventh-year senior is returning from the second season-ending ACL injury of his career, which cost him the 2024 season. When he was healthy in 2023, Toure was a wrecking ball for Hetherman in Rutgers’ defense. He finished second with 93 tackles and led the team with 9.5 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks.
Since arriving in the spring portal window, he’s quickly moved into a leadership role on defense. Bissainthe said Toure’s instincts and ability to get the ball are similar to Kiko Mauigoa’s, who led the Hurricanes in tackles each of the last two years before being drafted in the fifth round by the New York Jets. “I’m really excited to have him come in and join the room and build up the room,” Hetherman said. “Anytime you add a guy that has many game reps and plays in the system, he’ll continue to make everyone else around him better.”
- Elija Lofton, TE, recruit (2024): No true freshman played more snaps on offense for Miami last season than Lofton, a 6-3, 238-pound four-star recruit from Las Vegas. He’s bench-pressing 385 pounds, and he hit 21 miles per hour in spring camp. He caught nine passes for 150 yards and a touchdown and could carve out a Tyler Warren-type role in Miami’s offense as a do-it-all threat. Lofton said he has no idea where offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson is going to line him up on the field.
“He’s gonna line up a lot of different places,” Dawson said. “I think he has the unique skill set to do all those things. He is one of the most unique players I’ve had. This kid has a lot of football ahead of him.”
- Mark Fletcher, RB, recruit (2023): The 6-2, 225-pound junior served as the perfect complement to Damien Martinez in Miami’s running game last season, averaging 5.42 yards per carry and scoring nine touchdowns on 112 carries. Fletcher’s workload will ramp up this season. He’s finally healthy after battling a Lisfranc foot injury and a torn labrum in his first two seasons at Miami.
“I feel like I was catching up last year and not being able to really show my skill, perform to the highest level I could,” Fletcher said. “But I worked out this entire offseason and feel like I was able to really work on my craft. I feel invincible right now. I’m zooming right now. I’m even hearing it from other players.”
- Joshisa Trader, WR, recruit (2024): Tight end Elijah Arroyo was the only receiver the Hurricanes had drafted despite having the No. 1 offense in college football last season. Trader, a South Floridian and top-50 recruit, has a chance to become the first Hurricanes receiver to get drafted since Braxton Berrios (2018) if he can stay healthy and perform the way many expect him to. He started Miami’s bowl loss and had six catches for 91 yards and a touchdown in 99 snaps played. Receivers coach Kevin Beard said he thinks Trader is ready to make the leap.
“He came in 163 pounds and he’s worked his way up to 184 pounds now,” Dawson said. “You look at his body, you can see his body is changing. He’s maturing, taking steps to take care of his body in a better way. Really excited to see his maturation.”
The rest
11 Akheem Mesidor, DE, transfer (West Virginia)
12 Markel Bell, OT, recruit (2024)
13 Xavier Lucas, CB, transfer (Wisconsin)
14 O.J. Frederique, CB, recruit (2024)
15 CJ Daniels, WR, transfer (LSU)
• Mesidor, who transferred in from West Virginia in 2022, is Miami’s most experienced defensive player (29 starts, 1,811 snaps). In his first full healthy season since joining the team, he was solid with nine tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks. Heatherman identified Mesidor as one of Miami’s biggest defensive vocal leaders.
• Daniels, another sixth-year senior, arrived in the winter but was held out of contact drills this spring recovering from injury. He had 42 catches for 480 yards at LSU last season, but is looking to return to his 2023 form at Louisiana Tech when he had 55 catches for 1,067 yards and 10 touchdowns.
16 Justin Scott, DL, recruit (2024)
17 Armondo Blount, DL, recruit (2024)
18 Matthew McCoy, OG, recruit (2022)
19 James Brockermeyer, C, transfer (TCU)
20 David Blay, DL, transfer (Louisiana Tech)
• Blount and Scott are five-star recruits who are expected to take a step up after playing 185 combined snaps as true freshmen last season. Blay, a fifth-year senior and a first-team Conference USA selection last season, picked Miami over USC and Penn State after he entered the portal in the winter. Blay said he’s trimmed his body fat percentage down to 22 percent since arriving on campus and credits Miami’s nutritionist and expanded food table with helping him tremendously.
• Brockermeyer, a former Alabama signee and four-star recruit, started 12 games at TCU last season. Most of Cristobal’s linemen at Miami have been homegrown recruits, but the Hurricanes are starting a transfer at center for the third year in a row.
21 Jordan Lyle, RB, recruit (2024)
22 Keelan Marion, WR, transfer (BYU)
23 Ahmad Moten, DL, recruit (2022)
24 Damari Brown, CB, recruit (2023)
25 Malachi Toney, WR, recruit (2025)
• Marion, a dangerous return man, was added to the roster after the spring. He will line up inside or outside for Miami, Beard said. Same with Toney. Marion started 22 games in his college career, which included time at UConn. Beard said Toney has put himself in a good position to be in the rotation.
• Miami’s secondary might have looked different last season had Brown not injured his foot leaping up to make a play 14 snaps into the opening win at Gainesville. Brown had surgery in December and said he’s been at 100 percent since the spring. “I haven’t lost speed or skill,” Brown said. “I have a lot in the tank I’ve yet to show. I have to showcase it by being available.”
26 Jakobe Thomas, S, transfer (Tennessee)
27 Keionte Scott, CB, transfer (Houston)
28 Ethan O’Connor, CB, transfer (Washington State)
29 Kamal Bonner, LB, transfer (NC State)
30 CharMar Brown, RB, transfer (North Dakota State)
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Updated mine…Based on spring and first 2 weeks of fall.
Including adding the frosh into all categories.
Probably give an update after first couple games.
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