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A look inside UM’s passing numbers, on offense and defense, and what they reveal

Part 1 of a 2-part series

What the final numbers and metrics tell us about this University of Miami football season, as we await Thursday’s Pinstripe Bowl against Wisconsin:

u25aa For all of the criticism about the scheme (and Mark Richt suggested he doesn’t plan on significant changes in that area), there’s something simple that UM must become appreciably better at: throwing and catching.

Per Herald correspondent Daniel Gould, UM finished with an absurd 40 dropped passes this season. Here’s how it broke down: Lawrence Cager with nine, Jeff Thomas (who left the program) with seven, Darrell Langham and Dee Wiggins with five apiece, Brevin Jordan and Mike Harley Jr.