OL James Brockermeyer transfers to Miami

DMoney

Friday at 6:00 PM 1 min read

The Canes completed their starting OL with the commitment of TCU C James Brockermeyer. The high-IQ, 6’3.5, 300-pounder has played 931 collegiate snaps on both offense and special teams.

Coach Mirabal hopes to hit on his third center transfer in a row after the successful tenures of Matt Lee and Zach Carpenter.

Brockermeyer initially signed with Alabama as ESPN’s #1-rated center in America. After receiving limited playing time, he transferred to TCU where he became the full-time starter and earned Honorable Mention All Big-12 honors.

Brockermeyer comes from a family of OL, as his brother played for Alabama and his father played 9 years in the NFL after starring for the Texas Longhorns.

The Canes beat out USC and Florida State for Brockermeyer’s commitment. CanesInSight was first to report Miami’s interest in Brockermeyer.

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Friday at 11:14 PM

I like this pickup. While i think SJ can be a day 1 guy here, a year learning how to play the center position will help him out in the long term.

BeachCanes

Friday at 11:23 PM

He was just a big 12 Honorable Mention? How good is this guy really?

JADood

Friday at 11:31 PM

407cane said:
Nah this means even more due to our QB situation

Without the threat to throw our running game needs to be elite - it was this year and this solidified a solid unit next year

Too bad he sucked major *** in the run game

305to954

Friday at 11:34 PM

BeachCanes said:
He was just a big 12 Honorable Mention? How good is this guy really?

Plug & play. Experienced & if your a star guy he was a top guy too. I think we can trust that the oline evaluations.

407cane

Friday at 11:37 PM

JADood said:
Too bad he sucked major *** in the run game

Are you going off of pff grades that also said our whole line sucked in run blocking (we had 2nd best YPC in power 4 behind ND)

Because that would be an irresponsible take

flips

Friday at 11:47 PM

407cane said:
Are you going off of pff grades that also said our whole line sucked in run blocking (we had 2nd best YPC in power 4 behind ND)

Because that would be an irresponsible take
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What's his PFF RBLK grade on the year?

TCU's RBs only averaged ~3.1 ypc (I guess that 6-5 WR who was their most efficient runner actually ran mostly out of the backfield and not on jet sweeps so it's 4 ypc when he's included). Ours averaged ~6.1 ypc.

He's obviously not solely responsible for TCU's inability to run the ball, but I don't think we should expect him to be better at run blocking than Carpenter was. Which is a concern considering how much of our running has been done in the A-gap the last 2 years.

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Empirical Cane

Saturday at 12:49 AM

flips said:
Nice pick up. Dawson gotta be overjoyed. He can call 10 WR screens a game again next year

in a row

Confidence1000

Saturday at 1:33 AM

Atom Atlas said:

That’s what she said when I whipped it out last night Chief

Confidence1000

Saturday at 1:35 AM

Confidence1000

Saturday at 1:36 AM

Confidence1000

Saturday at 1:36 AM

Confidence1000

Saturday at 1:37 AM

Confidence1000

Saturday at 1:48 AM

JG14 said:
All kinds of pause required here @Confidence1000

All kinds of bans need to be handed out too for dat kind of talk! Bro way outta line too!
Aye yo Scott!

Hey yo! Fruitcake! Yeah u! Hit the button next time or else

Hurricane23

Saturday at 7:19 AM

Well at least the Oline will be very solid.

Hurricane23

Saturday at 7:26 AM

htownkidd said:
At this point I’d take Drones and run with it and I don’t even think he is good. Inaccurate athlete playing QB is what he is. He looked good against us but everyone except for Mertz did, he was subpar overall throughout the year IMO. We’d have to change quite a bit with him under center.

Drones would be better than what we have now though