2024 Miami Hurricanes Position Preview: Special Teams
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The beauty of having a consistent kicker is that no matter how bad the game might be going, the kicker will at least give you three points on the board. That is what the Miami Hurricanes have in senior kicker Andres Borregales.
Punting the ball was a bit of an issue on the season but Dylan Joyce was a true freshman last season when he saw the field. Growth will come from his experience last season and with that will come an improved special teams unit.
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Kicker: Andres Borregales
A GROZA AWARD Semifinalist and All-ACC First Team in the 2023 season will once again be one of the best kickers in the ACC as Borregales returns for another season with the Miami Hurricanes. Borregales will casually hit 50-plus yard kicks and turn around like he is Stephen Curry from Three because of his accuracy when he puts laces on the pig skin.
As one of the top kickers in FBS throughout his three-year career at The U, Borregales has tallied an 89.8% success rate on field goal attempts (17-for-19) during his junior season. His two misses came on attempts of 54 and 45 yards.
The Miami native has tallied 51 career field goals on 60 career attempts (85.0%), which ranks him as the second-most accurate among FBS kickers with 50 career attempts.
Punter: Dylan Joyce
The freshman punter saw a lot of action last season and he will return for a fun sophmore season. With the amount of offensive fire power on the field the 2023 All-ACC, Honorable Mention
and 2023 True Freshman All-America (247Sports) might not have to lift his leg to often.
He saw action in all 13 games serving as the team’s starting punter while averaging 43.8 yards on 43 punts and landed 15 punts inside the opponents’ 20-yard line and had seven punts of 50 yards or longer.
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Justice Sandle is a graduate of Mississippi State University earning a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Communications with a concentration in Print and Digital Journalism. During his time in Starkville, he spent a year as an intern working for Mississippi State On SI primarily covering basketball, football, baseball, and soccer while writing, recording, and creating multimedia stories during his tenor. Since graduating, he has assumed the role of lead staff writer for Miami Hurricanes On SI covering football, basketball, baseball, and all things Hurricanes related.