Miami’s leading tackler is in his eighth college football season in pursuit.
Linebacker Mohamed Toure will return to the Hurricanes for the 2026 season, CBS reports. Toure had 84 tackles and three tackles for loss in the Hurricanes’ 2025 national championship game against Indiana.
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This is Toure’s first season with the Hurricanes after transferring from Rutgers. Turay is Rutgers’ leading tackler in the class of 2023 with 93 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks. He missed the 2024 season with a torn ACL.
This is Toure’s second cruciate ligament tear in his left knee. He tore his left ACL for the first time before the 2022 season and missed that year.
A knee injury, limited appearances as a freshman and the COVID-19 pandemic were the reasons he was able to play in his eighth season of college football. He is in the same recruiting class as Travon Walker of the Jacksonville Jaguars, George Pickens of the Dallas Cowboys and Derrick Stingley of the Houston Texans.
Toure appeared in two games as a freshman in 2019 — players can appear in up to four games and still redshirt — and received a medical redshirt in the 2022 and 2024 seasons. Due to the impact of the epidemic, all on-campus players in the 2020 season have been eligible for an extra season.
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So while Toure’s 2026 season will be his sixth season on the fast track, two of those seasons have yet to be officially counted. He’s not even the longest-tenured player on Miami’s roster in recent years. Cam McCormick plays his ninth and final college football season for the Hurricanes in 2024. The tight end officially enrolled at the University of Oregon before the start of the 2016 season, then earned multiple medical redshirts and played the final two seasons at Miami.
Toure’s return also provides a boost to a Miami defense that lost edge rushers Akeem Mesido and Ruben Bane. The Hurricanes secured a commitment from Missouri edge rusher Damon Wilson earlier this week and added Ohio State defensive lineman Jax Carter and Boston College safety Omar Thornton.
