Mario Cristobal Announces Three Major Miami Roster Updates

Trinton Breeze
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The “I told you so” isn’t going to work here. It’s so easy to say this after just finding out an injury happened literally 8 months after the portal closed. At the time, the staff made the right decision by not spending the money on an expensive portal TE. I’ll tell you this right now, Bauman wasn’t cheap. It sucks Gilbert got injured because he would have balled this year
We were saying it BEFORE the injury, we NEEDED TE BAD.. Thats a development position and not ideal position to depend on true freshman. They tried to bulk Lofton up and make him a TE and we see he is not that, he slimmed down and gonna be used as more of a h back move piece weapon, even when bulked up he wasnt best blocker last year, he not digging out DEs at 235, we needed a true inline TE. You think I care about I told you so, I want to win, that position was a GLARING (we use it ALOT) need BEFORE the injury, thats why we were in portal thread.
 


Go to the 0:40 mark. He absolutely said it. Said 3rd Scroggins will not return.


Sounds like he said “he does now return from injury” to me, but 🤷🏾‍♂️. Play ball.

If he is out, sounds like a grand opportunity for someone like Pickett.


*During his appearance on The Joe Rose Show, Cristobal also announced the defensive end Third Scroggins is set to return from a minor offseason injury. Scroggins played 76 snaps as a true freshman in 2025. At 6-feet-3 and 245 pounds, Scroggins is now expected to be a rotation player at defensive end.
 
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We were saying it BEFORE the injury, we NEEDED TE BAD.. Thats a development position and not ideal position to depend on true freshman. They tried to bulk Lofton up and make him a TE and we see he is not that, he slimmed down and gonna be used as more of a h back move piece weapon, even when bulked up he wasnt best blocker last year, he not digging out DEs at 235, we needed a true inline TE. You think I care about I told you so, I want to win, that position was a GLARING (we use it ALOT) need BEFORE the injury, thats why we were in portal thread.
Agian, the staff really loved what they had in that room, which is why they allocated the money elsewhere. Even without Gilbert, there is plenty of talent in that room, so I’m not hitting the panick button. Plus, it’ll be really hard to keep SJ and Cogden off the field. This is a perfect opportunity to bring in an extra lineman
 


Go to the 0:40 mark. He absolutely said it. Said 3rd Scroggins will not return.


Sounds like he said “he does now return from injury” to me, but 🤷🏾‍♂️. Play ball.

If he is out, sounds like a grand opportunity for someone like Pickett.
He definitely said “now returns from injury” but no idea what that means. Does that means he is out will now have to return or that he has been out and now returns? 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
The big news is Gilbert is out for the season; is that legit?
Yes confirmed. Agreed that’s a bigger loss. Miami will be playing without a TE basically all year.

Will be interesting to see what Dawson does and I yes I know he doesn’t use them but they still play a lot in his offense and block
 
Hey if I heard it wrong..you wont hear me dying on that hill. Lol. Would be great news that he is good to go!
 
Agian, the staff really loved what they had in that room, which is why they allocated the money elsewhere. Even without Gilbert, there is plenty of talent in that room, so I’m not hitting the panick button. Plus, it’ll be really hard to keep SJ and Cogden off the field. This is a perfect opportunity to bring in an extra lineman
We were saying it then, BEFORE the injury that the room needed more. TE is a development position, not really one you depend on freshman. Both freshman were on record yesterday saying they are just learning to block inline with viti. The chicago kid said he had ball in his hands 30+ times his senior year and barely blocked.. Maybe Ruskavik (spelling) gets a role now because he is older and has good size. The inline blocking TE is role we have and use in this offense, I am not worried sbout the split out role, those guys can handle that.. We ask ALOT of our TE to block DE, in motion, insert, dig out, etc.

Any you know this is not a gotcha post, you were in the portal TE thread day 1, you know we were talking about this day 1 when portal hit BEFORE any injury mention.



 
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