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Alright, so it's the off-season and while most of the current focus on Canes football is on the spring ball, the tweet from the @theACCDN that paid tribute to Duke Johnson got me thinking a bit. I retweeted with a comment that he was the best UM player of the 2010's. I think it's a no-brainer actually. So how about the rest of the top 10?

So I'm a bit bored, and here's the list I came up with. Now, I didn't really try to factor in where a player was drafted or their NFL career. But impact and consistency at UM. And a guy had to have played two years in the 2010's to be eligible. I gave more credit to guys who were productive for multiple seasons. Keep this in mind, I tried to do this more off the top of my list and I didn't really research a lot of the stats, but just my general feel on the impact they made as Hurricanes. And I placed on emphasis on guys who had more than one good season as Hurricanes

Again, I may do a deeper dive into this in the summer. Here goes..

1- Duke Johnson: No brainer
2- Brandon Linder: Solid as a rock as a multi-year starter
3- Denzel Perryman: a hitting machine inside
4- Lamar Miller: maybe the most overlooked Miami running back. A real burner
5- Sean Spence: 'the Sixth Sense' had unreal insticts
6- Brad Kaaya: left UM as the all-time passing leader
7- Jon Feliciano: 'Mongo' was a stalwart inside
8- Stacey Coley: outside his soph year was always productive and a big play creator
9- Jacquan Johnson: incredibly high football IQ
10- Shaq Quarterman: day 1 starter at MIKE. Was very underappreciated -- till he was gone

Next 10

11- David Njoku: a walking mismatch for defenses, was actually underutilized
12- Ereck Flowers: would fit right in physically with the Cristobal/Mirabal OLines
13- Deejay Dallas: Versatile playmaker
14- Mark Walton: played early and often, was on his way to a big 2017 till his injury
15- Corn Elder: really good special teamer and scrappy corner
16- Phillip Dorsett: Miami could've used a guy like him outside last season
17- Ahmmon Richards: without his injury, he's a top 10 NFL pick
18- Braxton Berrios: his 2017 was memorable
19- Artie Burns: multi-year starter at corner, had all the measurables
20- Gerald Willis: a real trench bully inside

Honorable mention....

Clive Walford
Mike Jackson
Greg Rosseau
Trent Harris
Danny Isidora
RJ McIntosh
Allen Hurns
Anthony Chickillo
Olivier Vernon
Rayshawn Jenkins
Jamal Carter
Seantrel Henderson
Herb Waters
Deon Bush
Chad Thomas
 
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k9cane said:
Alright, so it's the off-season and while most of the current focus on Canes football is on the spring ball, the tweet from the @theACCDN that paid tribute to Duke Johnson got me thinking a bit. I retweeted with a comment that he was the best UM player of the 2010's. I think it's a no-brainer actually. So how about the rest of the top 10?

So I'm a bit bored, and here's the list I came up with. Now, I didn't really try to factor in where a player was drafted or their NFL career. But impact and consistency at UM. And a guy had to have played two years in the 2010's to be eligible. I gave more credit to guys who were productive for multiple seasons. Keep this in mind, I tried to do this more off the top of my list and I didn't really research a lot of the stats, but just my general feel on the impact they made as Hurricanes. And I placed on emphasis on guys who had more than one good season as Hurricanes

Again, I may do a deeper dive into this in the summer. Here goes..

1- Duke Johnson: No brainer
2- Brandon Linder: Solid as a rock as a multi-year starter
3- Denzel Perryman: a hitting machine inside
4- Lamar Miller: maybe the most overlooked Miami running back. A real burner
5- Sean Spence: 'the Sixth Sense' had unreal insticts
6- Brad Kaaya: left UM as the all-time passing leader
7- Jon Feliciano: 'Mongo' was a stalwart inside
8- Stacey Coley: outside his soph year was always productive and a big play creator
9- Jacquan Johnson: incredibly high football IQ
10- Shaq Quarterman: day 1 starter at MIKE. Was very underappreciated -- till he was gone

Next 10

11- David Njoku: a walking mismatch for defenses, was actually underutilized
12- Ereck Flowers: would fit right in physically with the Cristobal/Mirabal OLines
13- Deejay Dallas: Versatile playmaker
14- Mark Walton: played early and often, was on his way to a big 2017 till his injury
15- Corn Elder: really good special teamer and scrappy corner
16- Phillip Dorsett: Miami could've used a guy like him outside last season
17- Ahmmon Richards: without his injury, he's a top 10 NFL pick
18- Braxton Berrios: his 2017 was memorable
19- Artie Burns: multi-year starter at corner, had all the measurables
20- Gerald Willis: a real trench bully inside

Honorable mention....

Clive Walford
Mike Jackson
Greg Rosseau
Trent Harris
Danny Isidora
RJ McIntosh
Allen Hurns
Anthony Chickillo
Olivier Vernon
Rayshawn Jenkins
Jamal Carter
Seantrel Henderson
Herb Waters
Deon Bush
Chad Thomas
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Cant argue with that list the only one I would swap is Lamar over Duke but in terms of college production yes Duke over Lamar. I have a problem with when I see them in the NFL I cant unsee that production and it interferes with my list. But yea Duke in college for sure, Lamar should of started day 1 here.
 
k9cane said:
Alright, so it's the off-season and while most of the current focus on Canes football is on the spring ball, the tweet from the @theACCDN that paid tribute to Duke Johnson got me thinking a bit. I retweeted with a comment that he was the best UM player of the 2010's. I think it's a no-brainer actually. So how about the rest of the top 10?

So I'm a bit bored, and here's the list I came up with. Now, I didn't really try to factor in where a player was drafted or their NFL career. But impact and consistency at UM. And a guy had to have played two years in the 2010's to be eligible. I gave more credit to guys who were productive for multiple seasons. Keep this in mind, I tried to do this more off the top of my list and I didn't really research a lot of the stats, but just my general feel on the impact they made as Hurricanes. And I placed on emphasis on guys who had more than one good season as Hurricanes

Again, I may do a deeper dive into this in the summer. Here goes..

1- Duke Johnson: No brainer
2- Brandon Linder: Solid as a rock as a multi-year starter
3- Denzel Perryman: a hitting machine inside
4- Lamar Miller: maybe the most overlooked Miami running back. A real burner
5- Sean Spence: 'the Sixth Sense' had unreal insticts
6- Brad Kaaya: left UM as the all-time passing leader
7- Jon Feliciano: 'Mongo' was a stalwart inside
8- Stacey Coley: outside his soph year was always productive and a big play creator
9- Jacquan Johnson: incredibly high football IQ
10- Shaq Quarterman: day 1 starter at MIKE. Was very underappreciated -- till he was gone

Next 10

11- David Njoku: a walking mismatch for defenses, was actually underutilized
12- Ereck Flowers: would fit right in physically with the Cristobal/Mirabal OLines
13- Deejay Dallas: Versatile playmaker
14- Mark Walton: played early and often, was on his way to a big 2017 till his injury
15- Corn Elder: really good special teamer and scrappy corner
16- Phillip Dorsett: Miami could've used a guy like him outside last season
17- Ahmmon Richards: without his injury, he's a top 10 NFL pick
18- Braxton Berrios: his 2017 was memorable
19- Artie Burns: multi-year starter at corner, had all the measurables
20- Gerald Willis: a real trench bully inside

Honorable mention....

Clive Walford
Mike Jackson
Greg Rosseau
Trent Harris
Danny Isidora
RJ McIntosh
Allen Hurns
Anthony Chickillo
Olivier Vernon
Rayshawn Jenkins
Jamal Carter
Seantrel Henderson
Herb Waters
Deon Bush
Chad Thomas
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I'm sure I'll get dragged for this, but I don't get the Richards Top Ten pick comment. WRs are rarely chosen that high, although the WR classes for 18 and 19 were pretty weak ('19 especially). If you're asserting that he would've been selected that high in 2019 because there was not much else available, ok MAYBE I could see the point but I would point back to my comments about WRs not being taken that high. I get that this is all hypothetical so we can "argue" all day and neither be right, nor wrong.

I'm not saying he doesn't belong on this list. Not saying he wasn't a really good/great player his freshman season. Not saying the injury didn't suck. There just seems to be this growing sentiment among some that with each passing year Ahmmon's time at The U gets closer and closer to Legend status. At the pace it's going, it seems as though the next logical step would be for him to be canonized.

Carry on...
 
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Solid!

The only two that seemed out of place to me were:

Mark Walton is too high on that list
Olivier Vernon was too low.

Great stuff regardless, k9!
 
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BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
I'm sure I'll get dragged for this, but I don't get the Richards Top Ten pick comment. WRs are rarely chosen that high, although the WR classes for 18 and 19 were pretty weak ('19 especially). If you're asserting that he would've been selected that high in 2019 because there was not much else available, ok MAYBE I could see the point but I would point back to my comments about WRs not being taken that high. I get that this is all hypothetical so we can "argue" all day and neither be right, nor wrong.

I'm not saying he doesn't belong on this list. Not saying he wasn't a really good/great player his freshman season. Not saying the injury didn't suck. There just seems to be this growing sentiment among some that with each passing year Ahmmon's time at The U gets closer and closer to Legend status. At the pace it's going, it seems as though the next logical step would be for him to be canonized.

Carry on...
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I think AR was about to become one of the greats. Think back to the bowl game against WVa his freshman year. I would argue he was the best WR on the field, and that included Coley. But injuries took such a toll on him even before the neck injury. He was never at his best after his freshman season.

But I agree with you that for as good as he was and as much potential he showed, the injuries robbed him and he has to be judged by what he actually did as opposed to what we believe he could have been.
 
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