Miami Hurricanes pick up transfer addition Terry Roberts; Iowa CB has experience and when healthy has performed well
The Miami Hurricanes added a key portal cornerback in December, grabbing Davonte Brown from UCF. And now the Canes have another solid cornerback talent on hand out of the portal.
Iowa veteran Terry Roberts has chosen Miami, announcing his decision today. He will be enrolled at Miami for this semester and will compete in spring practice.
The 5-10, 182-pounder who was in the Class of 2018 will help a DB corps that doesn’t have much experience with starters Tyrique Stevenson and DJ Ivey gone. He could complete to be a boundary corner but also might be a good fit trying to push Te’Cory Couch for the starting nickel role.
Couch, Brown and Dayl Porter, Jr. (who transferred in from West Virginia last year) are the other main corners on the team, but UM does have other cornerbacks who haven’t done much that will try to step up – Malik Curtis, Chris Graves, Jaden Harris and incoming freshmen Robert Stafford, Antione Jackson and Damari Brown.
As for why Miami wanted to add Roberts?
Well, as you can see from above there’s just not a lot of proven top level talent or experience. So adding another body who can compete and has played in games can only help.
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Roberts arrives at Miami as somewhat of a mystery due to injury. He only played six games this past season due to injury, starting at cornerback in three of them. And two years ago he missed most of the year due to injury as well. The sixth-year senior finished this past season with 13 tackles and an interception along with two pass breakups. In 2021 he had 14 tackles and his first career INT along with three pass breakups.
Per Pro Football Focus he played just 32 reps in 2019 and 39 in 2020, then worked in for 168 reps in 2021 and graded out at 64.7 percent (with 70 considered a good grade). He had a 66.4 cover grade.
This past season he graded out at a very solid 79.0 in his 202 reps, including a 79.9 cover grade. His weakness is tackling, with a 51.7 grade in 2022 and 40.9 in 2021 (and six missed tackles the last two years).
