The Most Valuable Player for the Miami Football team in 2018 was not a big surprise. Defensive tackle Gerald Willis was one of the most dominant defensive linemen in the country this season. He finished 2018 with a team-leading for defensive linemen, 59 tackles, a team-leading 18 tackles for loss and four sacks.
You would expect that Willis would have been the most valuable player on defense. That’s not how the Hurricanes award their players. In 2017, Jaquan Johnson was the team MVP and former Miami defensive tackle R.J. McIntosh, the defensive MVP. Johnson was named the 2018 Defensive MVP for the Miami football team.