{"id":710581,"date":"2026-01-28T04:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:12:14","slug":"hurricanes-land-cooper-barkate-darian-mensahs-top-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710581\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes land Cooper Barkate, Darian Mensah&#8217;s top receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/01\/27\/um-mensah-commits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darian Mensah is Miami\u2019s next quarterback<\/a>, and he is bringing along a top teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Former Duke wide receiver Cooper Barkate committed to the Hurricanes Tuesday night, according to multiple reports, joining his former quarterback on the road to Coral Gables.<\/p>\n<p>Barkate was the Blue Devils\u2019 top wide receiver in 2025. He led the team with 72 catches, 1,106 receiving yards and seven touchdown catches. He was a second-team All-ACC selection.<\/p>\n<p>Barkate, a 6-foot-1 outside wide receiver, had a 76.6 receiving grade from Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n<p>Barkate played three seasons at Harvard before transferring to Duke. While at Harvard, he had 113 catches for 1,172 yards and 14 touchdown catches.<\/p>\n<p>Barkate is the third wide receiver transfer to commit to UM this offseason. He joins former South Carolina wide receiver Vandrevius Jacobs and former West Virginia wide receiver Cam Vaughn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darian Mensah is Miami\u2019s next quarterback, and he is bringing along a top teammate. Former Duke wide receiver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[339,7,929,2972,49,48,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-710581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-miami-hurricanes","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115970778310239548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}