led UM back to the national title game<\/a>. Now they are poised to become top-10 picks when the NFL draft starts Thursday night.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re resilient because they went through that 5 and 7 or at least witnessed it,\u201d Cristobal said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose were the guys that sat outside of Hard Rock and probably painfully waited for me to come and see him after the game, after we were done with media, to talk to them after an awful loss. But they\u2019re also intelligent; they\u2019re high-IQ guys. They understand that when you have to flip a roster and flip a program, that comes with it. If you\u2019re willing to endure and be an agent of change, that\u2019s probably what stands out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bain and Mauigoa, along with fellow likely first-round pick Akheem Mesidor, highlight a Miami draft class that includes nearly a dozen potential picks. The Athletic\u2019s Dane Brugler, who compiles the site\u2019s comprehensive draft preview, gives nine UM players a projected draft grade. Miami has not had nine players picked in one draft since 2017.<\/p>\n
The trio of Bain, Mesidor and Mauigoa could give the Hurricanes three first-round draft picks in the same draft for the first time since 2007 when Jon Beason, Brandon Meriweather and Greg Olsen went in the first round.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think \u2026 pro day was an indication of the fact that the NFL loves the way that the Miami Hurricanes play football,\u201d Cristobal said after the Hurricanes\u2019 Pro Day.<\/p>\n
Bain, Mauigoa and Mesidor have all been through some of the highs and lows with UM over the past several years, but they leave the program with the Hurricanes back in the national championship picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I left it better than I found it,\u201d Bain said at Miami\u2019s Pro Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s how I was raised up. And that\u2019s how I feel like I approached this here. And that\u2019s how I feel like I approach everything in life. I came in and worked my butt off with all my guys, and we came in and brought a new standard to the program, brought a new aura and perception about what the Miami Hurricanes (are) about in (the 2020s). Nobody really thought we was going to be where we are. And I know the guys coming back next year, they got that taste of how I feel, and they definitely are going to want to come back next year and get it all.\u201d<\/p>\n
All three players have expressed their love for the program now that they are departing. Other career Hurricanes like offensive lineman Anez Cooper and linebacker Wesley Bissainthe are hoping to hear their names called during the draft, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not my last time (at Miami\u2019s facility),\u201d Mesidor said at UM\u2019s Pro Day. \u201cI promise you that. I love this building. I love this organization. I\u2019m always here, even after my time as a \u2018Cane.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other Hurricanes likely to be picked in this week\u2019s draft include transfers who spent one year at UM but helped the team to its best season in decades. Quarterback Carson Beck is projected to be one of the first several quarterbacks picked. Defensive backs Keionte Scott and Jakobe Thomas, offensive linemen Markel Bell and James Brockermeyer and wide receiver CJ Daniels are among those who may be selected, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just so, so grateful that coach Cristobal (and) coach (Shannon) Dawson gave me the opportunity to come play quarterback at the University of Miami when I didn\u2019t have an elbow,\u201d Beck said. \u201cI just had surgery. I couldn\u2019t even throw a football. They trusted in me to go through that process and commit to the grind to be able to get back and ultimately play quarterback for this university. So I\u2019m super grateful that they gave me that opportunity and super grateful to be a Miami Hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When discussing star Hurricanes like Rueben Bain Jr. and Francis Mauigoa, Miami coach Mario Cristobal falls back on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41090,150,152,151,43683,9642,6183,89992],"class_list":{"0":"post-261943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-akheem-mesidor","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-arlington-headlines","11":"tag-arlington-news","12":"tag-francis-mauigoa","13":"tag-miami-hurricanes","14":"tag-nfl-draft","15":"tag-rueben-bain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}