The Miami Hurricanes are coming off of a College Football Playoff National Championship runner-up season and should expect at least a pair of first round picks in the 2026 NFL Draft. That\u2019s a lot of momentum as the 2026 season gets started on September 4th against Stanford.<\/p>\n
On March 24th spring football practices will begin for the new look Miami Hurricanes. The \u2018Canes will have to replace star power in QB Carson Beck, OT Francis Mauigoa, DE\u2019s Rueben Bain and Akheem Mesidor and do-it-all DB Keionte Scott.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes have a new starting QB in Darian Mensah and he\u2019ll have a familiar WR out wide in Cooper Barkate. It\u2019ll be fun to watch Barkate and Malachi Toney get reps with Mensah. The \u2018Canes are breaking in a new starting OL with Mauigoa, Anez Cooper, Markel Bell and James Brockermeyer all off to the NFL.<\/p>\n
On defense the \u2018Canes will have to replace Bain and Mesidor and transfer Damon Wilson II should be a fun addition from Missouri. Besides Omar Thornton replacing Scott the rest of the defense is returning talent from \u201825.<\/p>\n
Mario Cristobal used the transfer portal for a new QB, the WR position and a few key additions. Other than that it\u2019s a homegrown squad and this will be Alex Mirabal\u2019s greatest display of coaching as he\u2019ll have developed four of five potential starts on the OL.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Canes spring football game will take place on Saturday, April 18th. No TV or locatoin has been determined that I am aware of. Stay tuned for updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Hurricanes are coming off of a College Football Playoff National Championship runner-up season and should expect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,1806],"class_list":{"0":"post-819244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-football-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116250665553014710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819244","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=819244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}