MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — No. 7 Miami’s secondary has been challenged all season by each quarterback they see.
However, there has only been one snap this season with a fully healthy roster before injuries started to plague the group. First, sophomore Ja’Boree Antoine hasn’t seen a second of playing time, while star corner OJ Frederique Jr. has only taken one.
Through the first couple of games of the year, it was down to Ethan O’Connor and Xavier Lucas to make the outside, until Lucas got hurt. The severity of the injury wasn’t revealed before his return, and after a few games back, he had his best game of the year against Duke.
“Yeah, to me, that means it’s starting to show up now,” Mario Cristobal said about Lucas’s game-sealing interception. And I think anyone who’s been through a broken arm before, right, that had to play four weeks later, you could probably- nobody- that’s tough…