Howdy, y’all. Hope your week has gotten off to an excellent begin.
We’re nonetheless within the faculty sports activities useless interval, however issues might be getting going quickly sufficient. Nonetheless, there are Miami Hurricanes-related tidbits, so let’s get to them.
1) Cam Ward was 99.9% going to be the Tennessee Titans’ Week 1 beginning quarterback (absent harm himself). That simply bumped as much as 100%.
The Titans QB2, Will Levis, has opted for surgical procedure as Titans coaching camp will get underway. He’s been coping with points in his throwing shoulder, and now, he might be out for the 2025 season, which utterly clears the way in which for Ward to open his rookie season because the Titans’ beginning QB (once more – knocks on wooden – absent harm). The one different QBs on the roster for Tennessee are Brandon Allen and Tim Boyle.
It’s been a sizzling minute since a Miami Hurricanes quarterback has been a starter in an NFL sport, so for Ward to trot out on the sphere on September 7 in opposition to the Broncos in Denver, it’s going to be a sight that Miami followers might be excited to see, and it seems to be prefer it’s all however a lock at this level.
Actually wanting ahead to seeing Cam spin it this yr. He’s been impressing some Titans people I do know from what they’ve seen in exercises thus far.
2) Lacking on Derrek Cooper isn’t tough from the attitude that Miami has a strong RB room. However, after additional contemplation on my half, it’s powerful in that Miami continues to lose top-tier expertise to out of state faculties.
I do know I talked final week about not dropping sleep on lacking on Cooper due to him being a operating again, and Miami being in fine condition on the place. However it’s one other instance of Miami seeing the highest participant or two nationally at their place go away South Florida and never play for the hometown crew. It’s occurred twice this yr, with five-star Miami Northwestern WR Calvin Russell going to Syracuse and now with Cooper. Jeremiah Smith nonetheless burns from final yr. Jerry Jeudy, Calvin Ridley, Patrick Peterson all nonetheless sting. It goes again a great distance. You’re going to have misses, however Miami has had misses for a very long time on top-tier hometown expertise. An unlucky pattern.
3) Man, what a fantastic yr it was to be a second-round NFL draft decide, and Elijah Arroyo was a giant beneficiary of it.
The Seattle Seahawks took the previous Cane within the second spherical with the fiftieth total decide of this yr’s draft. Due to the Houston Texans giving fellow second-round decide (thirty fourth total) Jayden Higgins a completely assured deal, all different second-round picks held off from signing till they bought an identical deal.
Arroyo put pen to ink within the final week, signing a four-year, $8.813 million take care of $6.872 million assured.
Seahawks signed second-round decide, TE Elijah Arroyo, to a four-year, $8.813 million deal, together with $6.872 million absolutely assured, per his brokers Drew Rosenhaus and Shawn O’Dare.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 18, 2025
That comes out to 78% assured for Arroyo, if my math is mathing. Not unhealthy.
Arroyo is about to tackle a considerable position within the Seahawks’ new-look offense in 2025 after Seattle parted methods with veteran tight finish Noah Fant. Canes followers ought to control the West Coast to see the subsequent nice NFL tight finish from Miami begin to take flight.
Go Canes!