Miami defensive linemen Donta Simpson and Daylen Russell, safety Markeith Williams, tight end Brock Schott, and wide receivers Ny Carr, RayRay Joseph, and Chance Robinson have all been previously reported as Hurricanes who will enter the Transfer Portal when it opens on Friday.
The transfer portal is open from Friday, January 2, through January 16. Players on teams who make the College Football Playoff Championship game have from January 20 through the 24 to enter the transfer portal. The Miami staff will deal with the Transfer Portal opening and begin to prepare for the Fiesta Bowl.
Expect Miami to lose more players to the transfer portal in January. Miami could lose more transfers when the portal opens on Friday and others throughout the two-week window, depending if Miami wins its College Football Playoff Semifinal in the Fiesta Bowl against Georgia or Mississippi.
Miami will lose four of its five offensive linemen, but returns a lot of talent at running back and wide receiver entering the 2026 offseason. The four leading rushers for Miami have eligibility remaining beyond 2025. Expect one of two to enter the Transfer Portal.
Jordan Lyle
Partially because of an injury in the season opener against Notre Dame, RB Jordan Lyle has fallen to fourth on the depth chart. After running 54 times for 400 yards and four TDs in 2024, Lyle has 35 carries for 108 yards and one score in 2025.
Lyle does not have a carry since he had seven attempts for 17 yards and a TD in a 38-10 Miami win over Syracuse on November 8. Mark Fletcher Jr. announced his return for 2026 and CharMar Brown and Girard Pringle Jr. have multiple seasons of eligibility remaining beyond 2025.
It would seem beneficial for Lyle and Miami to part ways. Lyle was a huge signee for Miami out of St. Thomas Aquinas in the 2024 class, but the Hurricanes have a glut of RBs. Lyle can transfer and have a better chance to compete to be the starting RB with another program.
Chris Wheatley Humphrey
Wheatley-Humphrey is further down the depth chart than Lyle. In his second season with Miami as a redshirt freshman, Wheatley-Humphrey had 22 carries for 108 yards and a TD in 2022. All but one of those carries were in three games. Wheatley-Humphrey had seven carries each against Bethune-Cookman, Stanford and North Carolina State.
A backup quarterback
There is an excellent chance Miami will go back into the Transfer Portal to search for another starting quarterback in 2026. Miami has Judd Anderson, Luke Nickel and Emory Williams on the 2025 roster as backup QBs and signed three-star signal caller Dereon Coleman in the 2026 class.
Nickel is the highest-rated QB currently on the Miami roster. That includes starting QB Carson Beck. Anderson or Williams seems to be the most likely to transfer. Williams started two games in 2023 before suffering a season-ending injury.
After sitting as the backup behind Cam Ward in 2024 and Beck in 2025, Williams might seek to enter the Transfer Portal for an opportunity elsewhere if Miami brings in another QB to be the starter in 2026. Anderson is the lowest-rated of the Miami scholarship QBs per 247Sports.
Despite four likely openings on the OL, expect Miami to lose a few OL to the portal. Left guard Matthew McCoy is the only projected starting OL to return for Miami. Several Miami OL are buried on the depth chart, even with opportunities entering 2026.