Miami Hurricanes 2024 Place Overview: Quarterback

As we transfer deeper into the offseason, it’s time to look again on the yr that was in 2024 for the Miami Hurricanes. In the present day, we glance again on the play of Miami’s Quarterbacks, which was 99% concerning the unimaginable excellence of 1 participant.

The Celebrity: Cam Ward

What extra can we are saying about Ward and his singular excellence in 2024? The star switch from Washington State (and FCS Incarnate Phrase earlier than that) received a ton of awards. He was the primary Miami participant to be named ACC total and Offensive Participant of the Yr; unanimous 1st crew All-ACC; a Consensus 1st crew All-American, Davey O’Brien Award winner, and Manning Award winner as greatest QB within the nation.

Ward’s stat line on the season was unimaginable: 305 for 454 passing (67.0% completions) for 4,313 yards with 39 TDs and seven interceptions. Ward additionally added 204 yards and 4 TDs speeding, and 1 catch for 7 yards and 1 landing.

In his time at Miami, Ward set the all-time profession Division 1 (FBS/FCS) passing landing report (158 complete), grew to become the primary Miami QB to throw for greater than 4,000 yards in a season, set the single-season passing yardage and TD data for a Miami program that has had 2 earlier QBs win the Heisman trophy, set the single-season complete yardage report, and set the single-season touchdowns created report.

Ward led Miami to their first 10 win season since 2017, and had the crew 1 sport away from the School Soccer Playoffs.

There have been turnovers. There have been lulls. However, total, Ward was the sort of glorious performer at QB that Miami has been lacking for a few years, had the Canes inside a sport (or perhaps a handful of performs) of the School Soccer Playoffs, and actually rewrote the report books.

What else would you like me to say?

Grade: A+

Remainder of the Room

Emory Williams

Ward’s important backup, Williams was in a position to watch Ward work and learn to go concerning the enterprise of being a beginning QB.

Williams performed in 1 common season sport, going 11/12 in opposition to Ball State. That allowed Williams to get on the sphere for a sport, and in addition enabled him to redshirt this yr, which is essential for his growth.

Williams relieved Cam Ward for the 2nd half of the bowl sport……and was an unmitigated catastrophe. 5/14 with an interception in opposition to Iowa State. I’ve lengthy thought that Williams was a developmental participant who wanted 3 years on the faculty degree earlier than being anyplace close to starter high quality — if ever — and the bowl efficiency backed that up, I’m sorry to say.

Whereas he generally is a stable depth participant, I don’t assume Williams is of the required high quality to start out at Miami. He carried out effectively in opposition to Ball State….a crew that was among the many worst within the FBS final yr. However, when going through a top quality P4 crew in Iowa State, Williams was a fish out of water. It was painful to observe, actually.

Grade: D-

Reese Poffenbarger

Introduced in from the College of Albany, an FCS crew for whom he set data, Poffenbarger was regarded as in competitors for Miami’s beginning job on the time of his switch. Then Cam Ward determined to switch to Miami and that went out the window.

Whereas he took snaps in 4 video games (in response to the official stats web page, however I don’t do not forget that many occasions it occurred), Poffenbarger went 6/7 in opposition to FAMU and ran for 11 yards as effectively. These have been his solely statistics of the season.

Poffenbarger was an older participant introduced whose function went from potential starter (if there was a contest between him and Williams) to bench certain backup. I’m positive Williams and Anderson benefited from having Poffenbarger round, however his affect on this season on the sphere was close to zero.

Grade: C

Judd Anderson

One other developmental participant, Anderson spent all the season on the scout crew whereas redshirting. He’s huge (a legit 6’7”), athletic (former standout HS basketball participant), and has loads of arm expertise, however like others on this room, he’s a number of years away from competing at this degree.

Grade: Go; Redshirt

We’ll be again for extra awards and place recaps within the coming days.

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