Two additional Terps signed free agent contracts with the Green Bay Packers. OL Dane Randolph and DL Dean Muhtadi were the latest Terps to ink deals with the NFL. They both have to make the squad however.
Tyler Smith a 6’4 195 QB from Easton, Pa verbally committed to the Terrapins last night according to rivals.com. Tyler was greatly impressed with Coach Franklin and felt it was unnecessary take any more official visits.
As reported in Matt Bracken’s blog. defensive end Ian Evans becomes the 4th Terrapin football committment. The 6-foot-3, 230-pounder chose UM over offers from Syracuse and Temple. Rutgers, Penn State, Vanderbilt and many others were expressing interest, according to Hammonton head coach Pete Lancetta.
“I sent film out to a lot of places and [Maryland] was one of the first to respond very, very positively,” Lancetta said. “We’ve been getting obviously a lot of traffic coming through [the school]. He … Read More »
Former Terrapin left tackle, Jared Gaither signed with agent Drew Rosenhaus in the past few days. Porjected a sthe long timeLeft Tackle for the Ravens, signing with Drewmeans big dollars are ahead for Jared. Despite being the agent for some high matainance stars as T0, for the most part Rosenhaus is a deal maker as proven by the 125 NFL players he has under contract.
It was a great day for Maryland Terrapin football. Five Terps were selected by 5 different NFL teams
Darrius Heyward Bey -Wr 1st Round Oakland
Kevin Barnes-DB 3rd Round Washington
Moise Fokou OLB 7th Round Philadelphia
Jamie Thomas LG … Read More »
Some observations of the Red White scrimmage, won by the White squad 34-24.
QB1, Chris Turner played well throwing 3 touchdowns and seemed very comfortable with Adrian Cannon who caught 2 of the TDs.
More important, Jamarr Robinson showed himself to be a more then adequate backup QB throwing 3 TDs and runnig a smooth offense.
The star of the day was Quintin McCree who caught all 3 TDs from Robinson.
It was obvious Ralph pulled back his defense today, … Read More »
From the Sun, check out this video of DHB with his family at the time of the announcement. When I go back over DHB’s career at Maryland the only thoughts I have of him were scoring touchdowns. It seems like every time he touched the ball zooooom he was gone. The Oakland Raiders have selected a great athlete and a great kid. After 2 years in the NFL the second guessing of selecting him over Crabtree will cease. … Read More »
Yes I am excited about the spring game this afternoon. Maryland day at College Park is great for any fan. I anxiously await seeing QB1, Chris Turner going deep to Adrian Cannon, watch the new Terrapin defense, and overall observe the many new names in the lineup. My suggestion is to go to umdterps.com and print out the depth chart to get a better feel of the players.
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As of now Darrius has been projected as low as the 7th pick by the Oakland Raiders. Unless the Jets decide to try to move up and select QB1 from USC, Mark Sanchez–I believe the Jets will grab the 4.3 speedster with the 17th pick. Kevin Barnes and Jamie Thomas should be t least 2 more Terrapins drafted this weekend.
