UM Hurricanes QB D’Eriq King Needs Shoulder Surgery, Out For Rest Of Season

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October 11, 2021 astatine 10:20 am

CORAL GABLES (AP) — Miami Hurricane backmost D’Eriq King needs country to repair his close enarthrosis and volition miss the remainder of the season, a large stroke to the reeling squad and their hopes of contending successful the Atlantic Coast Conference.

King was injured successful the 2nd fractional of Miami’s nonaccomplishment to Michigan State past month, a crippled that whitethorn extremity up marking the past quality of his assemblage career. He near the tract aft getting hurt, past returned and didn’t miss a bid but was intelligibly laboring.

The Hurricanes learned the pursuing time that helium apt needed surgery, but some they and King were holding retired anticipation that rehabilitation would springiness him a accidental of playing again this season. That anticipation is present gone, manager Manny Diaz said connected his play vigor amusement Monday.

“We’re present nevertheless galore weeks out, and I deliberation successful D’Eriq’s caput we’ve exhausted that opportunity, that possibility,” Diaz said. “So, he’s going to get the country connected his enarthrosis and it’s going to beryllium Tyler Van Dyke’s team.”

Van Dyke has started each of Miami’s past 2 games and is successful enactment to commencement again Saturday erstwhile the Hurricanes (2-3, 0-1 ACC) sojourn North Carolina (3-3, 2-3). The teams were the statement apical picks successful the ACC’s Coastal Division contention to commencement the play and person struggled since.

King, who was successful his sixth assemblage play — taking vantage of a redshirt twelvemonth astatine Houston and the NCAA determination to springiness everyone an other twelvemonth of eligibility successful effect to playing done a pandemic past play — completed 66% of his passes successful 3 games for Miami this season. He entered the twelvemonth wide touted arsenic 1 of the nation’s apical dual-threat quarterbacks, is the astir close passer successful Miami past and has accounted for 111 assemblage touchdowns, 76 of them passing, 32 much rushing, and 3 receiving.

No subordinate successful assemblage shot implicit the past 20 years has had arsenic galore touchdowns successful each of those categories.

“That guy, arsenic you saw successful the Michigan State game, would bash thing to get backmost connected the tract and beryllium capable to play for us,” Diaz said.

It’ll beryllium 2 large surgeries present for King successful little than a year. He underwent country to rebuild the ACL successful his close genu successful January, aft getting wounded successful Miami’s vessel nonaccomplishment to Oklahoma State to extremity the 2020 season. King went done his rehab and didn’t miss a game, starting for the Hurricanes against Alabama connected Sept. 4 erstwhile this play began.

The Hurricanes mislaid that game, past bushed Appalachian State and mislaid to Michigan State successful the crippled wherever King was injured. Van Dyke and Jake Garcia divided the snaps successful Miami’s triumph implicit Central Connecticut State; Garcia injured an ankle successful that game, needed country and is retired until astatine slightest November.

That means Miami — which started the twelvemonth ranked No. 14 successful the AP Top 25 and is present unranked — is present without 2 of its apical 3 quarterbacks. Little-used redshirt freshman Peyton Matocha is the backup present to Van Dyke, who has completed 25 of 41 passes this play for 473 yards and 4 touchdowns.

King is simply a skipper astatine Miami and was the unquestioned person connected and disconnected the tract for the Hurricanes. With him gone, combined with the 2-3 start, the task of salvaging the 2021 play is present lone tougher.

“That D’Eriq King-sized spread successful enactment is important arsenic well,” Diaz said.

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