Mario Cristobal Provides OJ Frederique Injury Update

Trinton Breeze

Sep 7, 2026 1 min read

During Mario Cristobal's Monday press conference he provided an injury update on Miami Hurricanes defensive back OJ Frederique, after playing two snaps against the Stanford Cardinal.

According to Cristobal, Frederqiue will be out for quite some time: [It's a] pretty significant injury, so he'll be down for quite a while." Cristobal did not provided a time table for when Frederique will be back.

Coming into the 2026–27 college football season, Frederique was considered the focal point of the Hurricanes' secondary. The Hurricanes next couple of games are tune-up games before they travel to Clemson. So, hopefully he gets to feeling better before the team travel in a tough environment.

This past season, Frederique played a huge role in the Hurricanes' secondary, recording a total of 19 tackles and seven pass deflections. He blew up his freshman season, totaling for 27 tackles and one interception.

Due to the injury, junior defensive back Damari Brown was inserted into the game to replace Frederqiue. This is a huge blow for the Hurricanes secondary. Now, it is time to see what player steps up in his spot.

The Hurricanes will kick off against the FAMU Rattlers this Thursday inside Hard Rock Stadium.

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Warrior808

Sep 9, 2026

I had a 3rd degree separated shoulder snowboarding and that was no joke. End of my collarbone was raised up at the shoulder and I could barely get a shirt on by myself. Thats 50/50 surgery but for a professional athlete you probably want it to get back to 100%. I chose rehab and it took months before I was anywhere near the same, much less able to play football. Anything above that will require surgery to reconstruct and realign the AC joint, collarbone etc. Cant imagine coming back from that and hitting people in 6 weeks so hopefully its a grade I or more likely II.

Handsome Squidbum

Sep 9, 2026

Let's also not forget that Mario Cristobal is Miami's HC- in his mind a player missing even one game in the season is considered a "significant amount of time."

AUcane

Sep 9, 2026

PIPO said:
TheOriginalCane said:

Just FYI, @Brooklyndee said "separation". Is that on the list?

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May fall under tear but I put it into AI as separation and this is what it sent back:

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Hopefully nothing worse than Grade 2.

FWIW I had a grade 3 (still have that point in my shoulder) and opted out of surgery.

/coolstarrybra

Da Jumbo Mutombo

Sep 9, 2026

TheOriginalCane said:
Goddamnit, Trinton Breeze did a HORRIBLE job of listening, summarizing, and regurgitating what Mario actually said and what Joe Rose actually said.

Mario NEVER said we would get OJ back "at the end of the season".

Everyone is overreacting because @Trinton Breeze summarized Mario as saying something that Mario never said.

Fannnnntastic...

I didnt listen to the interview but am not surprised in the least bit at what you said lol

TheOriginalCane

Sep 9, 2026

NicKane said:
Bro, I’m not gonna get into the words people use when they’re in the middle of a press conference or interview. He clearly said The goal is to get him back by the end of the season and the end of the season is in the month of November. So if we can get him back by Notre Dame, then we have met that goal. I’m just happy he’s not done for the season and we will get him back eventually. I’m grateful for that.

Mario did not say "by the end of the season".

Joe Rose said "late in the season". Not "end of the season".

TheOriginalCane

Sep 9, 2026

AUcane said:
How do you reconcile Mario's comment about "hoping" he's back for the end of the season with expecting he'd be back for early November?

Easy. Mario did not say anything about "the end of the season".

Cribby

Sep 9, 2026

dycane said:
He’s going to play against ND. Mark it down.

Very possible

TheOriginalCane

Sep 9, 2026

Trinton Breeze said:
Huh

Go back and listen to the Joe Rose Show.

Then read your tweet. CAREFULLY.

Nobody ever said the words that you tweeted about "the end of the season".

Get better. Fast.

Sep 9, 2026

Calinative said:
What a retarded comment. He played something like 23/29 games as a Fr+So….

these people just aren’t smart

Ashevegas Cane

Sep 9, 2026

Cribby said:
Very possible

Somebody post the Obi Wan meme where he says "hello there" for me please

bdcane4eva

Sep 9, 2026

AI T-Breezy in here catchin strays

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TheATLCane

Sep 9, 2026

At this rate OJ will be back before Lucas

coffeecane

Sep 10, 2026

Warrior808 said:
I had a 3rd degree separated shoulder snowboarding and that was no joke. End of my collarbone was raised up at the shoulder and I could barely get a shirt on by myself. Thats 50/50 surgery but for a professional athlete you probably want it to get back to 100%. I chose rehab and it took months before I was anywhere near the same, much less able to play football. Anything above that will require surgery to reconstruct and realign the AC joint, collarbone etc. Cant imagine coming back from that and hitting people in 6 weeks so hopefully its a grade I or more likely II.

Exact same thing I did snowboarding. It's been over 2 years with a year of rehab and not even close to healed. Throwing a ball is still really uncomfortable. I doubt he plays this season if that is what it is because he would likely have surgery and significant rehab timeline. Grade 2 we should see him again toward end of year.