Redshirt sophomore Greg Rousseau leads returnees nationally with 15.5 sacks in 2019. Quincy Roche was named the top returning edge defender by ESPN recently and Jaelan Phillips was the top signee in the nation in 2017 at UCLA. Those three and the depth behind them give the Miami football team elite defensive ends.
Miami finished seventh in the nation in with 46 sacks in 2019. The Hurricanes lose junior Jonathan Garvin and graduate transfer Trevon Hill to the NFL but replace them with Phillips and Roche. The Miami football program record of 46 sacks set by the 1989 National Championship team should be seriously challenged in 2020.