QB Darian Mensah joins Miami Hurricanes after legal battle with Duke

Key Highlights

• Barkate committed Tuesday night as well, after the former Duke duo dined at a steakhouse in Miami Beach alongside some current and former Miami players. Mensah is joining his third team in as many years.
• He threw for 2,723 yards and 22 touchdowns for Tulane in 2024, then had 3,973 passing yards and 34 touchdowns — both best in the ACC — for Duke while leading the Blue Devils to a surprise conference title this past season. And the Hurricanes are hoping he can keep their run of portal-quarterback success going. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMiami has hit home runs in the past two seasons by going the transfer route, first with Cam Ward — who played his way into becoming the No.
• 1 pick in last year’s NFL draft — leading the Hurricanes to a 10-win season in 2024, then this past season with Carson Beck guiding the team to its first national championship game in nearly a quarter-century. The Hurricanes return a slew of offensive firepower from the national runner-up team, including star wide receiver Malachi Toney — the nation’s top freshman this past season — along with running backs Mark Fletcher Jr., Marty Brown and Girard Pringle, and tight end Elija Lofton. Barkate, who is also set to join his third different team in a three-season span, would seem to add even more to that already-loaded mix.
• He has 185 catches for 2,848 yards and 21 touchdowns in his college career, which includes three years at Harvard — he has an economics degree from there — and then this past season at Duke. Duke plays at Miami this coming season, visiting on Nov.
• 14.