Mario Cristobal didn\u2019t want to talk about who could be playing quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes in 2026.<\/p>\n
As rumors swirl that Miami is pushing hard for Duke quarterback Darian Mensah<\/a>, Cristobal\u2019s team is also prepping for Monday\u2019s College Football Playoff national title game<\/a> against Indiana. During media day on Saturday, Cristobal was asked about what his team\u2019s quarterback situation could look like in 2026 and he wanted nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cAnything related to the future, we choose respectfully not to comment on because, for us, all that matters right now is this team and this opportunity,\u201d Cristobal said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we\u2019ll leave it at that, if that\u2019s OK. Respectfully.\u201d<\/p>\n Miami QB Carson Beck\u2019s final college game is set to be Monday night, and the Hurricanes hadn\u2019t added his successor in the transfer portal \u2014 yet. As the portal closed Friday night, Mensah was a surprise entrant. The former Tulane QB had been signed with Duke for the 2026 season after he was one of the most high-profile transfers of the 2025 offseason.<\/p>\n Mensah led Duke to the ACC title in 2025 as Miami missed out on the title game but still snuck into the College Football Playoff. He was one of the best quarterbacks in the ACC this past season and was 334-of-500 passing for 3,973 yards and 34 TDs with just six interceptions.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n He could be a first-round pick in the 2027 NFL Draft. And he looked set to play his fourth season of college football with the Blue Devils. Instead, he could have an even bigger NIL offer coming his way from Miami or someone else \u2014 and now the defending ACC champions are left to scramble for a replacement as the portal has officially closed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe calendar, we all know, needs work,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cWe need a remedy that works for everybody and makes sense for everybody and allows for both student athletes to pursue their best opportunities while somehow, some way, maintaining their principles and values that come with college football, which I think we all know we\u2019ve lost that a little bit. We have.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cThen obviously we\u2019re up against a different clock, being that we\u2019re still playing, and all the focus for us is on playing, and then all the extra time, which you have to make, you have to cut into your own time, to continue to build your team for the future.<\/p>\n \u201cWe feel we\u2019ve done the best that we can thus far, and we\u2019re going to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Cristobal didn\u2019t want to talk about who could be playing quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes in 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61021,10241,48751,39630,7122,123,125,5079,124],"class_list":["post-122178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-carson","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-college-game","tag-darian-mensah","tag-mario-cristobal","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}