Six Miami Hurricanes Making First Career Start in Opener

The other newcomer who is starting is FCS All-American cornerback Dee Delaney. Delaney is a Graduate transfer from the Citadel. He is expected to have a bright future in the NFL.

Delaney is expected to have a huge impact on the defense. Both his play and leadership ability will be huge assets to the Hurricanes defense this season. Defensive coordinator Manny Diaz spoke about Delaney.

"“In his (Delaney) room, I think early on he was able to really capture the room with the way he went about it and prepared. The locker room will first and foremost be impressed by your work ethic and your toughness, so he came in and established both of those things… The next step for him is to take a leadership role in our entire defense because we don’t have a lot of guys in our secondary that have played a lot of snaps. We really want him to expand his sphere of influence outside of the corner room and into the entire secondary and then the defense.”"

Delaney will be joined at the other cornerback spot by Junior Michael Jackson. Jackson beat out expected starter Jhavonte Dean, Sophomore Malek Young and Freshman Trajan Bandy.

Jackson had a huge special teams touchdown at Notre Dame last season. He recovered a muffed punt that put Miami up late in the fourth quarter. The defense couldn’t hold and UM lost on a late field.