The 2024 Miami football team is set to once again be greatly impacted by the transfer portal. Head coach Mario Cristobal has once again leaned into the portal in hopes of building, at the very least, an ACC contender, with the hopes of making the conference title game for the first time under his leadership and the first time for the program since 2017.
Cristobal didn’t quite go as heavy in the 2024 transfer portal winter cycle like he has in the past two years. Miami football will only be adding nine new transfer commits, ranked as the 5th best transfer portal class in the ACC and 32nd overall in the nation. Eight of the players will be three-stars, with just one four-star.
That one four-star is perhaps the most important transfer in Cristobal’s tenure, however. That being former Washington State Cougars quarterback Cameron Ward.
In a previous article, I noted that Cameron Ward was the sneakiest transfer portal commit for the Hurricanes in the 2024 class. And that still remains true. The way that Cristobal and the rest of the Hurricanes staff were able to convince Ward to hold off on going to the NFL in favor of playing for Miami was impressive, massive NIL swaying or not.
