Fort Worth, Texas – Camward has not decided whether to throw at the NFL combine next week, but the quarterback will be asking how he will answer scouts or team staff asking if he will quit his Miami Hurricane. I know the final game with the team.
“Okay, you’re either drafting me or not,” Ward said before taking the Davy O’Brien Award Monday night as a national college quarterback. “If you don’t draft me, it’s your fault. You need to remember that you are on the same team as you have to play me for the rest of my career. I remember that.”
Ward was showering with online criticism suggesting he left the Hurricane after not playing the second half of the Popturts Bowl (a 42-41 loss to Iowa State) in December. He defeated the NCAA Division I record for his career touchdown pass before halftime.
The quarterback, who could become the first player to be selected in the NFL Draft in April, said the decision not to play later in that bowl game was pre-determined by him and the coaching staff.
“I think we all got what we needed. They saw what they think they need to work on… This season is getting closer, Ward said. It feels like we’re doing the best thing for the program and myself, which means it’s difficult, especially when some of our team didn’t play someone I thought I should play. It was a decision. You know, they thought about their future the same way I thought of me.”
Miami coach Mario Cristobal defended the ward. Last month he called the accusation of Ward’s resignation with his team a “false story.”
“If I could do it again, I would do it the same,” Ward said Monday, but he added later. I haven’t said anything.
Ward scored Division I (FBS and FCS) with 156 touchdowns as he threw for 190 yards and pushed Miami to a 31-28 halftime lead with the first passing of three touchdown passes in the Pop Turts Bowl I did. More than the Houston case (2007-2011). Miami used Emory Williams at quarterback in the second half. The Hurricanes later added former Georgia quarterback Carson Beck as a transfer.
Ward finished his college career with 158 TD passes, with 18,189 passing yards (6,908 incarnate ward, 6,968 in Washington and 4,313 in Miami) becoming the third in NCAA history, with only Keenum and Dilongabriel. In his only season with Miami, Ward set a yard single-season school record, completion (305), touchdown passes (39), and completion rating – 67.2% in both season and career.
As for the upcoming combine, Ward said he hadn’t come up with a plan for what he would do in Indianapolis next week. He’s going to throw it on Miami’s pro day.
The Davey O’Brien awards ceremony came about three weeks after the ward accepted. Manning Prize. He won both of these quarterback awards, following 2023 Heisman Trophy recipient Jayden Daniels, before becoming the second draft pick last year, and made Washington’s manager an NFC Championship Game I led him to.
“To see him succeed, Ward spoke of Daniels, “I’m motivating not just for myself, but for all the other quarterbacks.”
