{"id":237129,"date":"2026-04-18T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:14:11","slug":"miami-hurricanes-spring-game-live-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237129\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes Spring Game: Live Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Hurricanes<\/a> will cap off their spring football practices today at 10:15 a.m. with their annual spring game, taking place at Cobb Stadium.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned in as CaneSport<\/a> will update this blog throughout the game.<\/p>\n

12:00 pm<\/p>\n

That\u2019ll do it for Miami\u2019s spring game. Keep it locked in with CaneSport for continued coverage from today\u2019s last spring practice.<\/p>\n

11:55 am<\/p>\n

10th drive:<\/p>\n

Borchers incomplete pass downfield.<\/p>\n

Lafayette with the sack. Rowe returned the pass for a pick six, as the sack was not called.<\/p>\n

Borchers to Thomas for an 11-yard gain.<\/p>\n

Dropped INT by Ingraham.<\/p>\n

Incomplete pass by Borchers.<\/p>\n

Four-yard run by Whitehouse.<\/p>\n

Chukwurah with the would-be sack.<\/p>\n

Win by the defense.<\/p>\n

11:52 am<\/p>\n

Ninth drive:<\/p>\n

Anderson to Spafford over the middle for a gain of about 20.<\/p>\n

PI on the defense. Ball is moving up.<\/p>\n

Anderson with the QB keeper, brought down by Lafayette for a loss of 4-5.<\/p>\n

Anderson with a gorgeous 30-yard toss to Spafford over the middle.<\/p>\n

Walden punches in the TD.<\/p>\n

Win by the offense. Sensational drive by Anderson+Spafford.<\/p>\n

11:43 am<\/p>\n

Eighth drive:<\/p>\n

Mensah overthrows a rocket to Upshaw, who had his defender beat by a couple of steps.<\/p>\n

17-yard backfoot toss from Mensah to Barkate.<\/p>\n

Briggs reception for gain of 2.<\/p>\n

Mensah to Walden for gain of 5. Impressive open field tackle by Day.<\/p>\n

Mensah incomplete anticipation pass to Barkate. Pass was slightly over his ahead. Was outside the numbers.<\/p>\n

Mensah scramables outside the pocket and hits Gilbert. Pickett might have had a sack there.<\/p>\n

Mensah with a beautiful 30-yardish pass to Vaughn. Nice job to highpoint that ball. Play is called back. Maybe he didn\u2019t come down with it?<\/p>\n

Mallory for a gain of 6.<\/p>\n

Mensah fit a ball into a tight window for Barkate for a gain of around 17. Nice pass. Barkate, Upshaw and Parris have been the most productive receivers today.<\/p>\n

Mensah throws a TD on an 11-yard slant from Vaughn.<\/p>\n

Win by the offense.<\/p>\n

11:38 am<\/p>\n

Seventh drive:<\/p>\n

35-yard run by Mallory. He\u2019s one of today\u2019s biggest winners.<\/p>\n

Broken play, Lafayette on the would-be four-yard loss of Nickel.<\/p>\n

Taylor with the PBU on the Nickel pass.<\/p>\n

Nickel brought down by Nagle for a two-yard loss.<\/p>\n

Defense won that drive.<\/p>\n

11:33 am<\/p>\n

Sixth drive:<\/p>\n

Run by Whitehouse for a gain of 5<\/p>\n

Coleman pass downfield is broken up. Wyman in coverage.<\/p>\n

Coleman fit that ball in to Parris for a gain of about 20. Coleman quickly diagnosed the Cover 2 and fired in the hole shot to Parris.<\/p>\n

Coleman pass downfield to Parris is incomplete. Parris had a couple of steps on the defender.<\/p>\n

Coleman fumbles the ball on the QB keeper. Awkward handoff. Charles with the tackle, but Coleman retained possession.<\/p>\n

Dropped INT by Edwards.<\/p>\n

Nice pass outside the numbers from Coleman to Spafford.<\/p>\n

11:30 am<\/p>\n

Fifth drive:<\/p>\n

Mensah to Wheatley-Humphrey for a gain of four.<\/p>\n

Mensah again to WH for a gain of 7.<\/p>\n

Sack by Blount. Wilson was also in the backfield.<\/p>\n

Run by Mallory for a gain of 8. He\u2019s looked good today.<\/p>\n

Another run by Mallory for a gain of 3.<\/p>\n

Mensah throws to Upshaw downfield for a 25-yard TD in the same spot that he hit Barkate earlier. Rainbow of a pass that hit Upshaw perfectly in stride.<\/p>\n

Win by the offense.<\/p>\n

11:25 am<\/p>\n

Fourth drive:<\/p>\n

Short pass blown up by Dunnigan, who\u2019s having a really solid spring.<\/p>\n

Anderson to Parris for a gain of 17 down the middle of the field.<\/p>\n

Penalty on offense. Pushed back five yards.<\/p>\n

Anderson to Ruskavich for a gain of 11.<\/p>\n

Anderson finds Parris again for a gain of around 3. Third and short situation for the second team offense.<\/p>\n

Run by Walden is stuffed by Campbell. Loss of 4.<\/p>\n

Fourth-down PBU from Dunnigan.<\/p>\n

Defense won that drive.<\/p>\n

11:17 am<\/p>\n

Third drive:<\/p>\n

Mensah swing pass to Lyle, who runs for a gain of about six.<\/p>\n

Mallory incomplete to Lyle. Wilson was in the backfield.<\/p>\n

Wiley takes down Lyle on third down.<\/p>\n

Mallory complete to Barkate on fourth down. Gain of 7.<\/p>\n

Mallory for a gain of four.<\/p>\n

Mensah checks down to Mallory. Gain of around three.<\/p>\n

Mallory gain of 1. He then picks up another yard for a fourth-down conversion.<\/p>\n

Wheatley-Humphrey runs for 11. Great patience and burst out of the cut from him.<\/p>\n

Gorgeous pass from Mensah to Barkate downfield for a 30-yard TD. Barkate beat his defender cleanly off the line.<\/p>\n

First win of the day for the Miami offense.<\/p>\n

11:15 am<\/p>\n

Second drive:<\/p>\n

Mallory gain of three.<\/p>\n

Bad snap over Nickel\u2019s head. Recovered by Nickel for a loss.<\/p>\n

Nickel throw away. Pickett might have had a sack there.<\/p>\n

Drive won by the defense.<\/p>\n

11:10 am
Live scrimmage time.<\/p>\n

1st drive:
Lyle gain of 8.<\/p>\n

Mensah to Gilbert for a gain of 7<\/p>\n

Lyle for a minimal gain. Lucas with the tackle. Great play from him.<\/p>\n

Lyle with a first-down run. He juked out a defender on that run.<\/p>\n

2-yard run by Wheatley-Humphrey<\/p>\n

Mensah incomplete pass. Broken up by Jennings. Good protection.<\/p>\n

Wheatley-Humphrey stuffed at the line. Play made by Davis.<\/p>\n

Mensah incomplete deep bass down the left sideline. Jacobs was the target.<\/p>\n

Win of a drive for the defense.<\/p>\n

11:05 am
It\u2019s halftime. We will watch the live scrimmage after this break.<\/p>\n

11:02 am
Dropped pass by Mueller on a 7-8 yard out route. Coleman put that ball in the right place.<\/p>\n

11:01 am
Anderson to Luna for a reception of about 12 yards. Nice toss. Good protection.<\/p>\n

10:59 am
Nice inside move from Herbert Scroggins, who beat his OL to get into the backfield on that third down play.<\/p>\n

10:57 am
3rd down drills now. Mensah hits Lofton for a first down. Lofton\u2019s had a productive day so far.<\/p>\n

10:56 a.m.
Nickel coughed up the ball on what looked like a fumbled read option. Bonner cleaned up the loose ball.<\/p>\n

10:53 a.m.
Jake Weinberg nails a 21-yard FG.<\/p>\n

10:52 am
Play of the day so far from Omar Thornton, who blew up a goal-to-go run for a four-yard loss.<\/p>\n

He *exploded* off the line.<\/p>\n

10:50 am
Screen pass to Jacobs. Jarquez Carter showed off his motor and speed to get involved in that tackle after disengaging from the line.<\/p>\n

10:48 am
Transitioning now to redzone work.<\/p>\n

Mensah to Jacobs for about a 10-yard gain. Nice grab from him.<\/p>\n

10:46 am
Judd Anderson to Milan Parris for a gain of about 15. Nice toss from the RS sophomore<\/p>\n

10:45 am
Nice OL push on a run from Pringle, who would\u2019ve ran 4-5 yards before first contact.<\/p>\n

Pringle gets bottled up on the next play.<\/p>\n

10:44 am
Nice rep off the edge from Booker Pickett, who would\u2019ve gotten home to Luke Nickel.<\/p>\n

10:41 am
Team is running controlled 11-on-11s now.<\/p>\n

Mensah to Lofton for a gain of 6.<\/p>\n

10:37 am
Cooper Barkate just burned the DB guarding him off the line and connected with Darian Mensah on a hitch route in one-on-ones. Really impressive get-off; very technically sound.<\/p>\n

10:35 am
We\u2019re now watching one-on-ones.<\/p>\n

Malachi Toney nearly made a crazy circus catch in the back of the endzone. He came down with the ball, but he was out of out of bounds.<\/p>\n

10:30 am
Watching the offensive line go through individual drills, and it\u2019s impressive how physically well-built the unit is. Georgia transfer Jamal Meriweather is among the physical standouts.<\/p>\n

As for the receivers, Daylyn Upshaw is ahead of WVU transfer Cam Vaughn on the second team during individual drills.<\/p>\n

10:25 am
Players and coaches have run onto the field. Here we go.<\/p>\n

10:15 am
Practice should be starting soon. The stands around Cobb Stadium are filling up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Hurricanes will cap off their spring football practices today at 10:15 a.m. with their annual spring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-237129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237129","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=237129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}