Miami Hurricanes RB TreVonte’ Citizen working hard off torn ACL, looking to make impact this season: “

When TreVonte’ Citizen signed with the Miami Hurricanes as a highly touted 4-star prospect in the 2022 recruiting class, the expectation was he’d come in and compete to start given the team’s lack of a bigger, more physical back with his level of explosiveness.

Instead Citizen wound up rehabbing a torn ACL all year, with the injury coming when he took a wrong step in a Miami practice two weeks into drills. And then the injury took longer to heal than expected.

“It was second week of camp, I just stepped too far out of my range, tore my ACL,” Citizen told CaneSport on Monday. “It didn’t really heal as well as I hoped, and I want to make sure I’m 100 so I’m taking it step by step till I’m ready to be on the field again.”

Citizen therefore won’t be on the practice field working with the team tomorrow morning (stay tuned to CaneSport for complete coverage of the workout). But don’t rule out him getting on the field at some point this season.

“I’m ready for the season,” Citizen said, adding “I don’t want to put it out there right now (when I’ll be back), I want to make sure I’m 100 percent before I’m on the field.

“That’s my goal, be able to help my team out (this season). I’ve been out for a little minute, but I feel I should be right back to where I was before I got injured.”

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Citizen says his Miami teammates helped get him through the rough mental challenge that comes with being out of the sport you love for a prolonged period of time.

“They had my back through thick and thin,” Citizen said, adding that he thinks with the talent in this year’s RB room (returning starter Henry Parrish, Nebraska transfer Ajay Allen, Don Chaney back off injury and true freshmen Mark Fletcher and Christopher Johnson) “the sky is the limit for us.”

He says weight-wise he’s about where he was pre-injury (6-1, 220 pounds), and that getting acclimated back to football off this type of injury “is hard for anybody.”

“But, for me, it’s going good,” he says. “I’m grateful for the staff, my teammates, grateful I made the decision to come to The U because they treat me like family. When I got hurt guys got behind me and it was `You can do this.’”

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