University of Miami announces Ring of Honor Class of 2025

The University of Miami is extending one of their greatest honors to a handful of legends who more than deserve it.

The university announced Friday morning that Ken Dorsey, Andre Johnson, Bryant McKinnie, and Dan Morgan have all been selected as part of the 2025 class to be added to the Ring of Honor.

The quartet represent four of the best players from the last great era of Miami Hurricanes football. During the 2000-2002 era, the Canes went 35-2, won the 2001 national championship, and was – for multiple reasons that everyone reading this knows – denied the opportunity to play for one and flat out robbed of another with a single yellow hankey.

Dorsey is the winningest quarterback in school history at 38-2 and is first in career touchdown passes (86) and second in career passing yards (9565). He won the Maxwell Award in 2001 and finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting that year. He was the co-MVP of the Canes’ 37-14 thrashing of Nebraska in the Rose Bowl.

Speaking of the Rose Bowl, Andre Johnson was the other co-MVP with 7 catches for 199 yards and 2 scores. From 2001-02, he tallied 19 receiving touchdowns in 23 games. He finished with an absurd 19.9 career yards per catch average. Johnson would go on to put together a legendary career with the Houston Texans, posting 14,875 career receiving yards and 70 touchdowns on the way to enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2024.

Bryant McKinnie was a massive part of the school’s run to the title in 2001, literally and figuratively. He earned consensus first-team All-American honors as the team’s starting left tackle and won the Outland Trophy given to the nation’s best interior lineman. He would go on to be drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2002 NFL Draft and help the Ravens win their second Super Bowl title in 2012 as the team’s starting left tackle during their improbable postseason run.

Dan Morgan had perhaps the greatest single season by any Hurricanes linebacker in 2000. He had 138 total tackles, with two games of 20+ combined tackles. He earned consensus first-team All-American honors and brought home the Dick Butkus, Bronko Nagurski, and Chuck Bednarik Awards. He set the school records for most career total tackles 532. He would go on to a 7-year career with the Carolina Panthers, who took him in the first round of the 2001 draft.

The quartet – all members of the UM Hall of Fame – join 27 other former players and coaches in the Ring of Honor. The most recent inductees came in 2023, when Dennis Erickson, Chuck Foreman, and Jimmy Johnson were all added.

Congrats, gentlemen!