In a roller-coaster season that ended on a flurry of negatives, this edition of the State of the U awards will feature a steady dose of positives. In the following paragraphs, we’ll review the defensive line’s performance and hopefully validate their nod as Miami’s best positional unit of 2019
Where better to begin than No. 15...or shall we say, 15.5
It should come as no surprise that the brightest star of 2019 was defensive end Gregory Rousseau.
The redshirt-freshman finished the year with an ACC-best 15.5 sacks, equaling Greg Mark (1989) for the second-highest single-season total in school history, and falling just 1.