Burns fully recovered from injury

CORAL GABLES — After missing most of the preseason, Miami Hurricanes RB has returned to contact drills.

Offensive coordinator said Burns should be available for the season-opener. He has been sidelined since sustaining a shoulder injury in April.

“He’s full go,” Brown said. “He’s got a lot of ground to make up as far as the mental aspects and also physically as well.” Burns, a freshman, enrolled in the spring. Brown said no one has emerged in the race to earn the starting fullback job. Among those competing are

and but all are walk-ons. LB has also gotten reps during the fall but expects to spend most of his time on the defensive side.

“We don’t have [a fullback] on scholarship right now,” Brown said. “We have probably about four or five walkons competing for that spot, so we’ll see what happens.” According to coach ,WR

has been one of the breakout performers of the preseason. The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Langham spent most of last season on the practice squad. His improvement has put him in position to crack the receiver rotation.

“Everything I’ve worked on in the spring, it’s kind of helped out what I’m doing right now in fall camp,” Langham said.

Castillo, Danny Dominguez Mike Smith Next game: Robert Burns Thomas Brown Jack Pope, Mark Richt Cesar Darrell Langham

No. 18 Miami vs. Bethune-Cookman, Sept. 2, 12:30 p.m., ACC Regional Sports Network