Childhood teammates ready for one last home game as ’Canes

CORAL GABLES — There are moments Miami Hurricanes standout Jaquan Johnson looks around the apartment he shares with teammates Sheldrick Redwine and Robert Knowles and shakes his head.

“Redwine, he’s pretty messy,” Johnson laughed. “I’m always on the two of them. ‘Can we please clean up the kitchen today? Can y’all please wash the table?’ It’s been a long time with these guys.”

But Miami’s preseason AllAmerican safety can’t stay mad too long.

“I love them, so Johnson smiled. it is what it is,”

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As Johnson prepares to play his final home game as a Hurricane at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday against 24th-ranked Pittsburgh, he knows it will likely prove to be an emotional afternoon.

One of the major reasons why? It will be the last home game he shares as a Hurricane with Redwine, one of the teammates he’s shared the field with long before both arrived in Coral Gables.

Johnson and Redwine grew up in Miami’s Richmond Heights neighborhood. They played youth football together for the Rich- mond Giants. Later, they starred at Miami’s Killian High, and it was there that both decided to play college football for their hometown team.

The Hurricanes grateful ever since.

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