The very first time D’Eriq King was in a game-like setting under new Miami Hurricanes offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee, he felt confident it was a marriage bound for success.
Following an offseason that, due to the coronavirus pandemic, put every roadblock imaginable between King and Lashlee in letting them build chemistry, UM’s star grad transfer quarterback wasn’t disrupted. After losing the spring game, several spring scrimmages and some of a key summer, King threw four touchdowns in the team’s first fall camp scrimmage.
“The way we were moving the ball,” said King of working with Lashlee’s up-tempo spread attack, “everybody was clicking.