Five telling stats from the Miami Hurricanes’ win over the Florida A&M Rattlers

The No. 12 Miami Hurricanes made quick work of the Florida A&M Rattlers with a 56-9 win on Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium to improve to 2-0 on the season.

Here are five key stats from the win.

▪ 300+ yards and three touchdowns: For a second consecutive game, Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward threw three touchdowns and had more than 300 passing yards (304 to be exact this week). He is the first quarterback in Hurricanes history to have at least 300 passing yards and three passing touchdowns in each of his first two starts in program history.

▪ 3: Defensive lineman Tyler Baron had three sacks in the Hurricanes’ win over Florida A&M on Saturday. He is the first Miami player to have a three-sack performance since Akheem Mesidor had a three-and-a-half sack outing against Virginia Tech on Oct. 15, 2022. According to the Associated Press, Baron is just the eighth Hurricanes player in the past 20 years with a three-sack game.

Through two games with Miami since transferring from Tennessee, Baron has already recorded four sacks and five-and-a-half tackles for loss.

▪ 10th place: With four catches for 104 yards, including a 50-yard touchdown, senior wide receiver Xavier Restrepo now has 1,933 receiving yards in his Miami career. That’s the 10th-most in school history. He passed Andre Johnson and Allen Hurns on that list Saturday. He is now 67 yards shy of 2,000 for his college career, 200 yards away from moving up to ninth in Miami history (Phillip Dorsett has the spot now with 2,132 yards) and 615 yards from breaking Santana Moss’ school record of 2,547 career receiving yards.

Additionally, Restrepo now has 142 total receptions, one shy of tying Moss and Michael Irvin for fifth in Hurricanes history and 41 away from breaking Mike Harley’s school record of 182 career catches.

Saturday was Restrepo’s eighth career 100-yard game.

▪ 22: 22 of the Hurricanes’ 26 scholarship true freshman saw the field during Saturday’s win over FAMU, according to the participation log on the postgame box score.

The full group: Quarterback Judd Anderson; running backs Jordan Lyle and Chris Wheatley-Humphrey; wide receivers Joshisa “JoJo” Trader, Ny Carr and Chance Robinson; tight end Elija Lofton; offensive linemen Deryc Plazz and Nino Francavilla; defensive linemen Justin Scott, Marquise Lightfoot, Armondo Blount, Cole McConathy II, Artavius Jones and Booker Pickett; linebackers Cam Pruitt and Adarius Hayes; defensive backs Zaquan Patterson, OJ Frederique, Dylan Day and Ryan Mack; and kicker Abram Murray.

On offense, the group accounted for seven carries for 47 yards and a touchdown along with four catches for 15 yards. The defensive players tallied 10 tackles, one sack (by Scott), two interceptions (Pruitt and Hayes), four pass breakups (by Patterson, Hayes, Pruitt and Frederique) and one quarterback hurry (by Lightfoot). Murray also hit a 38-yard field goal and made an extra-point attempt in the fourth quarter.

▪ 1,044: When tight end Elijah Arroyo caught the game’s first touchdown on Saturday — a 17-yard reception from Ward — it marked just his second career touchdown and his first since Oct. 30, 2021, at Pittsburgh as a true freshman. That’s a span of 1,044 days in between his two touchdown catches with Miami.

Also on the tight end front, Arroyo, Lofton and sophomore Riley Williams combined for four catches and 47 yards on Saturday. Through two games this season, Hurricanes tight ends have caught 11 passes for 183 yards and two touchdowns. The group has already surpasses the total yards (154) and touchdowns (one) that they had in all of the 2023 season and are seven receptions away from matching that mark, as well.