One of nation’s top-performing offensive linemen\u2026Earned consensus NCAA All-America first-team recognition\u2026Selected annual winner of ACC’s Jacobs Blocking Trophy, honoring conference’s top blocker\u2026Selected to All-ACC First Team\u2026Key member of offensive line that was named to midseason honor roll for Joe Moore Award, recognizing nation’s top unit\u2026Started all 42 games of career at right tackle, never missing one start\u2026Part of offensive line unit that ranked No. 5 in nation and led ACC in fewest tackles for loss allowed per game (3.63)\u2026Team ranked No. 16 nationally and No. 2 in ACC in sacks allowed per game (1.25) despite facing some of nation’s top defenses\u2026Named ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week and Outland Trophy National Player of the Week following Miami’s win over Syracuse on Nov. 8\u2026Earned 87.0 pass-blocking grade over course of season from Pro Football Focus, which led all qualified FBS right tackles\u2026Allowed just one sack in 205 true pass set snaps, according to PFF, and totaled 93.7% win rate on those snaps \u2013 second-best among all 2026 NFL Draft-eligible tackles.<\/p>\n
Key member of offensive line that helped pave way for No. 1 offense in nation in both points per game (43.9) and yards per game (537.2)\u2026Helped offensive line to spot on Joe Moore Award Honor Roll at midseason, honoring nation’s top-performing units\u2026Started all 13 games at right tackle, earning All-ACC second-team recognition as one of conference’s top linemen\u2026\u00adHelped lead offense to 529-yard output in season-opening win at Florida (Aug. 31) with start at right tackle\u2026Started at right tackle and helped Hurricanes amass 549 yards in win over Florida A&M (Sept. 7)\u2026Started in dominating win over Ball State (Sept. 14) where Hurricanes piled up 750 yards of offense\u2026Helped guide offense to fourth straight 500-yard performance (592) with start at right tackle at USF (Sept. 21)\u2026Started in come-from-behind wins at Virginia Tech (Sept. 27) and California (Oct. 5), where Miami totaled 508 yards and 575 yards, respectively\u2026Enjoyed strong performance at Louisville (Oct. 19), starting and helping offense to win and 538 yards\u2026Started in wins over Florida State (Oct. 26) and Duke (Nov. 2)\u2026.Started at right tackle at Georgia Tech (Nov. 9)\u2026Led Miami to another 500-yard performance vs. Wake Forest (Nov. 23), helping Hurricanes to win with 508 yards\u2026Started at Syracuse (Nov. 30)\u2026Started at right tackle in 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl against Iowa State (Dec. 28), where Hurricanes totaled season-high 308 rushing yards.<\/p>\n
Served as one of top performers on offensive line, earning All-ACC Honorable Mention\u2026Played key role on line that was named to midseason honor roll for Joe Moore Award, honoring nation’s top unit\u2026Started all 13 games at right tackle with Hurricanes\u2026 Started in season opener against Miami (Ohio) (Sept. 1) and helped lead Hurricanes to 493 yards of total offense, including 243 rushing yards\u2026Made start in win against Texas A&M (Sept. 9), leading Hurricanes to 451-yard explosion against talented Aggies defense\u2026Helped pave way to 589 yards of offense against Bethune-Cookman (Sept .14) with start\u2026Started at Temple (Sept. 23) where Hurricanes had season-high 323 rushing yards\u2026Made starts against both Georgia Tech (Oct. 7) and at North Carolina (Oct. 14)\u2026Started against Clemson (Oct. 21), where Hurricanes totaled 211 yards of rushing offense against one of nation’s top defensive units and won in 2OT\u2026Started against Virginia (Oct. 28)\u2026Started in back-to-back road games at NC State (Nov. 4) and at Florida State (Nov. 11)\u2026Paved way for 489 yards of offense in start against Louisville (Nov. 18), which entered game ranked among top defensive units\u2026Led Hurricanes to 532 yards of offense against Boston College (Nov. 24) in regular season finale, most yards gained by Miami against ACC competition all season\u2026Made final start of season at right tackle against Rutgers in 2023 Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl (Dec. 28).<\/p>\n
Consensus five-star prospect by ESPN, 247Sports and Rivals\u2026Checked in as No. 5 overall player in nation in ESPN300\u2026 Listed as No. 8 overall in 247Sports Composite Rankings\u2026 Rated No. 1 offensive tackle nationally by ESPN and 247Sports\u2026Ranked No. 20 overall player and No. 3 offensive tackle by Rivals\u2026Selected to Under Armour All-America Game and Polynesian Bowl\u2026Helped IMG Academy accumulate 9-1 record, while averaging 49.7 points per game during senior season\u2026Tabbed 2021 MaxPreps Junior All-American as right tackle\u2026Played sophomore year in hometown of Pago Pago, American Samoa at Tafuna High, leading Warriors to undefeated campaign\u2026Began high school career at San Bernardino (Calif.) Aquinas\u2026Chose Miami over offers from Oregon, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, USC, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Ole Miss, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State and Texas A&M, among others.<\/p>\n
Prinounced “mau-ee-NO-uh.” Nickname is Sisi (“see-see”), short for his full Samoan name of Falangisisi. Brother, Francisco (nickname is Kiko), played LB at Washington State and then Miami (FL) with Francis and was a 5th round pick of the New York Jets in 2025 (45 tackles in 12 games with 8 starts as a rookie). Oldest brother, Frederick, played center at Washington State under Mike Leach. Francis ranked #20 on Bruce Feldman’s 2024 College Football Freaks List for The Athletic (1.72 10, jump power 9,274 watts-Miami record) and ranked #16 on the 2025 list (1.57 flying 10-yard split, 18 mph on GPS, 30.5″ vertical).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of nation’s top-performing offensive linemen\u2026Earned consensus NCAA All-America first-team recognition\u2026Selected annual winner of ACC’s Jacobs Blocking Trophy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54521,27880,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-244098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-homepage","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244098","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=244098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}