Position Preview | Offensive Line
| POSITIONAL PREVIEWS |
| Offensive Line |
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| WHO’S BACK? | HEIGHT | WEIGHT | YEAR | |||||||||||||
| 52 KC McDermott | 6-7 | 308 | Jr. | |||||||||||||
| 54 Hunter Knighton | 6-5 | 300 | RJr. | |||||||||||||
| 59 Justin Goldberg | 6-2 | 220 | RSo. | |||||||||||||
| 62 Hayden Mahoney | 6-5 | 295 | RFr. | |||||||||||||
| 63 Danny Isidora | 6-4 | 305 | Sr. | |||||||||||||
| 66 Sunny Odogwu | 6-8 | 325 | RJr. | |||||||||||||
| 67 Alex Gall | 6-5 | 305 | Sr. | |||||||||||||
| 68 Nick Linder | 6-3 | 305 | Jr. | |||||||||||||
| 73 Trevor Darling | 6-4 | 320 | Sr. | |||||||||||||
| 74 Tyler Gauthier | 6-5 | 300 | So. | |||||||||||||
| 75 Brendan Loftus | 6-7 | 300 | RFr. | |||||||||||||
| 77 Jahair Jones | 6-4 | 315 | RSo. | |||||||||||||
| 78 Tyree St. Louis | 6-5 | 305 | So. | |||||||||||||
| 79 Bar Milo | 6-6 | 300 | RFr. | |||||||||||||
| WHO’S NEW? | HEIGHT | WEIGHT | YEAR | |||||||||||||
| 61 Jacob Munoz | 5-11 | 210 | Fr. | |||||||||||||
| 76 Tre Johnson | 6-7 | 300 | Fr. | |||||||||||||
| RETURNING LEADERS | |
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| Nick Linder | Danny Isidora |
OFFENSIVE LINEMEN BY THE NUMBERS
3- Miami offensive linemen Nick Linder and Danny Isidora have combined for three preseason watch list honors heading into the 2016 season.
6- The Canes have six offensive lineman returning from the 2015 team that made eight or more starts a year ago: Darling, Gall, McDermott, Linder, Isidora and Odogwu
85- Miami has one of the most experienced lines in the ACC. The Hurricanes enter the 2016 season with 85 career starts among the front five.
THINGS TO KNOW
- Junior Nick Linder was named to the Rimington Trophy Committee 2016 Watch List, the award given to the best center in the nation. Linder was also selected to the 2016 spring watch list.
- Linder and senior Danny Isidora were both named to the 2016 Outland Trophy Watch List, which is an award given to the best Offensive Linemen in the nation.
- Isidora was named to the Athlon Sports 2016 All-ACC Preseason Third Team following a 2015 season in which he established himself as one of the Hurricanes’ most reliable offensive linemen.
- Isidora enters his senior season having made starts in 26 straight games. He was one of just four players on last year’s team to start in all 13 games.
- In 2015, the Hurricanes’ offensive line helped Miami achieve a No. 29 national ranking in passing offense (277.4 yards per game).
- Miami’s offensive line was ranked eighth nationally in fewest tackles for loss allowed (4.31 average) following the 2015 season.
TWEETABLES
Nick Linder is trying to become the first Hurricane to win the Rimington Award since All-American Brett Romberg in 2002.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
“The main thing we want out of the offensive line is guys that play extremely hard, play with great effort, have a great attitude about coming to work every day, play with extreme toughness and they’re smart players that know what to do.” – Miami OL coach Stacy Searels
“Danny [Isidora] led all through the spring and has continued that heading into fall camp. It’s encouraging to see Sunny Odogwu back out here. He’s fitting in well with the group and that’s just giving us more depth with Tyree St. Louis, Tyler Gauthier and some of the other guys.” – Miami OL coach Stacy Searels
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