The Miami Hurricanes won’t have any scholarship tight ends available for their regular season finale against Pittsburgh.

Going into the Virginia Tech game, Miami was down to two scholarship tight ends, freshmen Will Mallory and Brevin Jordan. By the end of that game, however, both players were out of the game with an injury.

Jordan sustained an ankle injury early in the game that knocked him out of action while Mallory had an awkward fall in which he twisted his knee.

While both players are expected to be out against Pittsburgh, Richt is hopeful they will be available for their bowl game.

“Brevin had an ankle injury and he will not participate this week, but we feel confident he will make it for the bowl week,” Richt said. “Will hurt his knee and we don’t expect him to play this week either, but we are also hopeful he will play in the bowl as well.”

With no scholarship tight ends available, Miami will likely use more three and four receivers sets, which is a move they went to against Virginia Tech.

“We will just have to be in different personnel groups,” Richt said. “There are other ways to line up. We did it [against Virginia Tech] so we will have to figure out what is the best plan.”

Veteran tight end Michael Irvin Jr. sustained an injury during fall camp that has kept him out of action while Brian Polendey sustained an injury early in the season.

Richt said defensive end Scott Patchan is doing fine. He is dealing with a hip pointer injury and Richt is hopeful he can plan this week against Pittsburgh.

After watching film of the Virginia Tech game, Richt was pleased with the way N’Kosi played.

Perry finished the game completing 21-of-34 passing attempts for 171 yards with two touchdowns. He also rushed for 16 yards and a touchdown on nine attempts.

“I was pleased with the way he took care of the football,” Richt said. There was one play where he was reckless and he tried to throw it at the last second and almost fumbled it. He did a good job overall. There were lots of decisions to make in the run game and he mostly did a good job. There were a few times when he should have pulled it instead of handing it off, but overall he did very good.”