Tyler Van Dyke, Wisconsin Football News: Draft Scout Player News

07/25/22 - QB Tyler Van Dyke, rSr/2025, Wisconsin

University of Miami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke, tight end Will Mallory and defensive end Jahfari Harvey had just landed in Charlotte and were en route with coach Mario Cristobal to the Westin for the ACC media days, when the three made a pact. "Yeah, we're coming back here in December,'' they said. "That's the mindset first and foremost,'' Van Dyke, the 2021 Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year, told reporters Thursday at the ACC Football Kickoff. "We're in the Coastal [Division] and getting here and winning that ACC championship." If the Canes do win the ACC title Dec. 3 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, it would be the first league title for Miami since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004. This will be UM's final opportunity to win the Coastal, since the conference is doing away with divisions beginning next season, when all 14 teams will battle for the top two spots to face each other in the ACC title game.

Van Dyke, a third-year sophomore, already this week was named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which goes to the player of the year at season's end, as well as the Davey O'Brien Award. He played in 10 games last season and started the final nine, completing 202 of 324 passes (62.3 percent) for 2,931 yards and 25 touchdowns, with six interceptions. Van Dyke, 6-4 and 224 pounds, ended the season with six consecutive games with at least 300 passing yards and at least three touchdown passes, becoming the first Power 5 quarterback quarterback to do so in a single season since LSU's Joe Burrow in 2019, when he won the Heisman Trophy. Van Dyke, by the way, said Thursday that people are always comparing him to Burrow. - Miami Herald

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