{"id":391399,"date":"2026-09-05T14:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391399\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:06:44","slug":"malachi-toney-reacts-to-historic-record-setting-performance-in-miamis-win-vs-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391399\/","title":{"rendered":"Malachi Toney Reacts to Historic Record-Setting Performance in Miami’s Win vs. Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malachi Toney said setting Miami’s new single-game receiving yards record was made more meaningful by the caliber of wideouts on the program’s leaderboard.<\/p>\n

Toney racked up 234 receiving yards in Friday’s season-opening win over Stanford to beat the single-game program record<\/a> set 42 years ago by Eddie Brown.<\/p>\n

“It means a lot knowing how many greats played at this university,” Toney told reporters<\/a> after Miami’s 45-6 victory. “Just for me to be the player to break that record and set a new one, it just means a lot.”<\/p>\n

Toney started out Friday’s game with a 48-yard reception and went on to make three touchdown catches, including a 47-yard score in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

His performance helped quarterback Darian Mensah finish the game having missed just three of 30 pass attempts while throwing for 401 yards.<\/p>\n

Multiple legendary Miami wide receivers were watching Toney open the season with a historic performance.<\/p>\n

WPLG Local 10’s Will Manso shared a video of former Hurricanes and Dallas Cowboys star Michael Irvin congratulating Toney after the win.<\/p>\n

Former Miami standout and current Indianapolis Colts wide receivers coach Reggie Wayne also shouted out Toney’s performance on social media.<\/p>\n

Toney led the nation with 109 catches and paced the ACC with 1,211 receiving yards during his true freshman 2025 season despite reclassifying to enroll in college early. <\/p>\n

The wide receiver could establish himself as a Heisman Trophy candidate<\/a> if he is able to continue building on his chemistry with Mensah in his age-19 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malachi Toney said setting Miami’s new single-game receiving yards record was made more meaningful by the caliber of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-391399","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\/391399","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=391399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}