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.

 

Dunnigan gonna be starting soon with Fitz moving to corner

 

stanford player had a broken clavicle that was so bad he had to have pins surgically inserted. That would be a "pretty significant injury." Yet he was back in just around 2 weeks. I am curious about the specifics of the injury.

Literally no specifics lol. People with their hair on fire and he could be back by Clemson or ND.

 

Here comes the doom and gloom lol

 

Mario on Antoine: "We expect him back in the latter part of the season."

cool, ACL or PCL sprain then? Not a tear.

 

Yes 70% of the people on here are absolutely insufferable. Hair on fire at the first sign of trouble. Lucas came back on, O’Connor played. Other guys have a chance and have to step up. And we have an O that’s gonna can to blow for blow.

Well we were told this group would be elite and 2 guys are hurt for most of the year, 2 more are playing hurt, and then you have one guy who is injury prone and sucks (Brown). Wake is no gimme on the road and on a Friday. You’d like to see Lucas and O’Connor full go by then. Dylan Day should be good by then as he’s getting over an illness.

 

70% of you on this board are absolutely insufferable. Acting like it’s the end of the world that we’re down guys in the DB room. Somehow now our schedule is a gauntlet according to some here and now “nothing can be taken for granted.”

Nothing was being taken for granted to begin with, get a grip. We have an O that’s gonna put monster numbers and points on teams. And our D will be fine. Not elite hut they don’t need to be right now.

Dawg our best CB is out and two others injured as well it is a concerning situation. Brushing it off and saying fans are insufferable is something. Lmao

 

Ah I see the mopes are rejoicing. This gives you mopes something to mope about for a bit. The younger guys get some burn now and he’ll be back once we play ND

Really was hoping to see Jabaree play but he’s hurt too!

 

I know D$ raves about him, but I was not impressed with Damari Brown vs Stanford at all. Looked slow and stiff. We need young guys to step up big time with all these injuries (OJ, O’Connor, Antoine)

 

That Wake qb looked aiite from the cutups I saw…DL gotta take it to another level.

 

Sauces tell me Cristobal has lost the locker room.

PLAYERS ONLY meeting on Tue.

Again, my sauce is solid here.

 

Time for the young guys to play

 

I know D$ raves about him, but I was not impressed with Damari Brown vs Stanford at all. Looked slow and stiff. We need young guys to step up big time with all these injuries (OJ, O’Connor, Antoine)

OConnor played but is nicked up. I’d sit him Thursday and get the young guys time but he won’t want to sit because that’s the type of guy he is so probably play a quarter then wrap it up.

 

I’m done w Mr Glass here. Go be a bust in the league or hit the portal. With Sears, Hall, Wright coming in don’t want to count on unreliable OJ

 

Dunnigan gonna be starting soon with Fitz moving to corner

Which, good thing hes been 1v1 vs Toney a lot of the offseason

 

Well it’s good for the younger guys to get more playing time while we’re are in the easy part of the schedule. It will only help us down the road.

 

But Mario said a significant time out. That doesn’t sound like he’ll be back in two weeks or whatever.

As someone who's had these, I'd take the under. Like has been said a Stanford player just played a few weeks after a break and screws. Depends how you define these phrases.

 

One of our top insiders said it was nothing yesterday. Odd.

 

Not if you’re too legit. And this isn’t the NFL anyways. But your statement is 1000% off-base.

Jordyn Tyson is ‘injury prone,’ went first round, and just got injured again. Chris Bell got drafted on a torn ACL. It’s a violent sport. Guys get injured all the time. Jamal Adams has a ton of injuries. Nate Hobbs. Adoree Jackson. Artie Burns. And so on. Plenty of work to be found post-injury if you’re like that.

OJ didn’t suffer a BIG injury last year lol. He missed 5 games and returned for the playoffs. By your logic we would’ve cut loose w/ Damari Brown who we are now depending on because of these other injuries. And we’d have to kick Antoine to the curb after this year too.

Saints I'm sure are regretting the Tyson move and yes most of those player's have bounced from team to team. Injuries are fine but if you have a big history of injuries and you are a team #1 option you just can not continue to rely on them when there are other options. He missed the majority of the 2nd half of the season last season. He got injured in the playoffs and missed the Semi Finals. He got injured 1 snap Into the season this year. I mean we're talking 3 pretty substantial injuries since the end of October 2025.

 

Sauces tell me Cristobal has lost the locker room.

PLAYERS ONLY meeting on Tue.

Again, my sauce is solid here.

Pete?

 

Winning college football games is tough. Any given Saturday anybody can lose. I’m much more concerned abt the front 7 than the back end right now