Jake Garcia noticed essentially the most prolonged motion of his still-young profession Saturday, taking part in greater than a half within the Miami Hurricanes’ 45-21 loss to the Duke Blue Devils after Tyler Van Dyke’s second-quarter harm, and he might be on the verge of creating his first begin later this week.
Garcia is “preparing to be the guy” as Miami will get able to face the Virginia Cavaliers on Saturday, offensive coordinator Josh Gattis mentioned, Van Dyke’s standing seems to be in critical doubt.
Coach Mario Cristobal mentioned he doesn’t “know yet” whether or not Van Dyke will be capable to play in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Hurricanes are “doing everything we can to get him ready,” however Van Dyke was wearing a sling on his proper arm Monday as he left the soccer services in Coral Gables, The Athletic reported.
“We have a lot of faith in both Jake and Jacurri [Brown] to play winning football for us,” Cristobal mentioned.
If Van Dyke can’t play, Garcia will get the beginning nod at Scott Stadium, Cristobal mentioned. Garcia completed out Miami’s loss over the weekend and went 13 of 21 for 198 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions, and in addition misplaced two fumbles. He additionally made three appearances in September — twice in lopsided wins towards the FCS Bethune-Cookman Wildcats and Southern Miss Golden Eagles, and once more after the Hurricanes benched Van Dyke of their beautiful loss to the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. He is now 32 of 49 for 470 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions this yr.
Brown, who has been the third-stringer and performed often as a short-yardage quarterback, might be Garcia’s backup if Van Dyke is unavailable. The freshman has not but thrown a cross.
Although Garcia was accountable for 5 of Miami’s eight turnovers final week, Gattis and Cristobal stay assured within the redshirt freshman due to the highs he has already displayed. Garcia threw touchdowns on two of his first three collection towards Duke and led the Hurricanes to touchdowns on two of his 4 drives towards Middle Tennessee final month.
“I am very confident in Jake,” Gattis mentioned. “Jake has displayed his ability. Obviously, that was Jake’s real first time of actually seeing adversity, right? He’s been in other games and had success. He led us in success in that game in a short period of time and so we’ll clean up the mistakes.
“Jake did a great job coming in at first. … One of the things you’ve got to do whenever you’ve lost a quarterback in a game, I think the next most important thing is to make sure your second quarterback stays protected. And things started obviously to unravel a little bit once Jake got a little bit of pressure and that’s going to come with game experience. This was really his first time facing pressure in those type situations.”
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Bad news on Zion Nelson
After Zion Nelson missed his third straight recreation, Cristobal isn’t ruling out the likelihood the star deal with may not return this season.
Nelson, who earned preseason All-America recognition from a number of shops, has performed in just one recreation this yr and never began any after having surgical procedure on left knee in July. Miami (3-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) initially hoped the 6-foot-5, 316-pound junior would prepared for the beginning of the season, however he wasn’t fairly able to go after which had “a setback” just a few weeks into the yr, Cristobal mentioned.
“I’d like to say yes, but I don’t know,” Cristobal mentioned when requested if he anticipated Nelson returning this season. “We’ve gone back and forth, thinking he’s going to be ready, thinking he’s not. Obviously, he’s a great player. Obviously, he’s missed tremendously, but we’re still going to put health at the forefront and right now he’s just not ready. He’s just not. I’ll have a better, more tangible answer for you in the next couple of days, but right now we’ll just put it on ice and let him get well.”
Nelson is one in every of a number of injured offensive linemen. Jonathan Denis exited with an obvious left leg harm Saturday and Justice Oluwaseun has missed two straight video games with an harm, and Cristobal, when requested by WQAM whether or not he expects to have some linemen again this weekend, mentioned he doesn’t.
The coach does, nonetheless, count on broad receiver Brashard Smith to play this weekend after he missed the loss to the Blue Devils. Safety James Williams additionally “seems to be OK” after getting banged up Saturday, Cristobal mentioned.
This and that
▪ After a second straight 100-yard recreation, broad receiver Colbie Young is the ACC Receiver of the Week. The sophomore led the Hurricanes with six receptions for 127 yards and two touchdowns Saturday, and now ranks second on the group with 271 receiving yards regardless of not making a single catch within the first 4 video games of the season.
▪ Miami’s annual rivalry conflict towards the Florida State Seminoles subsequent month might be a prime-time showdown on ABC. The Hurricanes will face Florida State at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 5 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, the ACC introduced.
David Wilson, a Maryland native, is the Miami Herald’s utility man for sports activities protection.
