Coach Cristobal says Jalen Rivers will play on Saturday

Monday at 9:09 AM 1 min read

After weeks of equivocation, Mario Cristobal was clear and direct in stating that Jalen Rivers will play against Louisville.

“He is full go today, he was full go last week, and he will be playing on Saturday.”

Rivers, Miami’s starting LT and a team captain, has been out since the opening game against Florida with an upper body injury.

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N.M.B. Cane

Monday at 4:49 PM

is one of our top 5 players. I like Bell, but Rivers is a game changer

flips

Monday at 4:55 PM

Cookie917 said:
1. agree with your first statement (or the sarcasm) but this aint that. Mario is very coy about the "game time decisions" **** Rivers has been a Gametime decision for 4 weeks, same with Bain two weeks ago but when he said Bain was a full go, we saw he was a full go. Now he is saying the same thing about Jalen, I would bet Jalen starts on Saturday.

2. I do think Bell becomes the 6th man TE/extra blocker on short yardage. Mario and co like to use this. I think that was McCoy's role last year where he would go to the TE jersey # and I remembered being confused a few times on who was clearing out running lanes in a TE jersey then realized it was a 6th OL. My guess however is Bell just acts as the TE on either side on the line and the starting 5 stay the starting 5.

Yeah Rivers clearly playing. Like your take on Bell being 6th Man TE. Sets up nicely to hit him with a back shoulder fade - huge target area and catch radius!

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NCCanefan

Monday at 5:27 PM

flips said:
Sweet. Coach has never lied to journos about injuries, so am sure this is accurate.

Since Bell has burned his shirt, curious to see if we kick Rivers or 61 inside to LG on short yardage runs, or - my favorite - go 6OL with Bell at LT and Cooper/61/Rivers on right side. Immense amount of tonnage and tuffness & fyzicality.

Why limit that to short yardage?? I'll pass along to Mario

407cane

Monday at 6:54 PM

to be clear,

when mario said elijah was good to go - he thought the reporter was asking about lofton right?

do we know if elijah alston is coming back this week?

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