2025 Football Roster

1 Eli Blakey

  • Position Defensive Back
  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 208
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Louisville, Ky.
  • High School DuPont Manual

Biography

2024:
  • Started 12 games
  • Third-Team All-MAC
  • Academic All-MAC
  • Named Miami's Defensive Most Improved Player of the Year
  • Finished year with 89 tackles, one interception and two pass breakups
  • Had a career-best 18 tackles in a win at Eastern Michigan
  • Added 10 tackles and an interception in a win over NIU
  • Opened season with nine stops at Northwestern


2023 Highlights:
  • Played in all 14 games, making seven starts
  • Finished season with 46 tackles, one forced fumble and a pass break-up
  • Had a season-high nine tackles in a win over Ball State
  • Forced a fumble at UMass

2022 Highlights:
  • Played in and started five games.
  • Missed the second half of the season with an arm injury.
  • Finished the season with 27 tackles, six pass breakups, one fumble recovery and one interception.
  • Had a career-best nine tackles and an interception in his first career start at Kentucky.
  • Recorded five tackles and four pass breakups in a win at Northwestern.

2021 Highlights: 
  • Saw action in three games.
High School Highlights:
  • Attended DuPont Manual High School
  • Coached by Scott Carmony 
  • Team captain
  • Had 23 catches for 432 yards and six touchdowns as a junior
  • Added 55 tackles and three interceptions that same season
  • Earned first-team all-state as a junior
  • Named his team’s Most Versatile and Defensive MVP as a junior.

Statistics

Season:
2025

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 16

    2021Freshman

    Defensive Back
    6'2" 195 lbs
    16
  • 16

    2021-22Redshirt Freshman

    Defensive Back
    6'2" 195 lbs
    16
  • 16

    2022Redshirt Freshman

    Defensive Back
    6'2" 204 lbs
    16
  • 16

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    Defensive Back
    6'2" 208 lbs
    16
  • 16

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Defensive Back
    6'2" 214 lbs
    16
  • 1

    2025Redshirt Senior

    Defensive Back
    6'2" 208 lbs
    1