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Maryland will hire New York Giants assistant defensive backs coach Henry Baker as its new cornerbacks coach, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday. Baker, a former Maryland defensive back, fills the lone vacancy on Coach Michael Locksley's staff. Baker spent one season with the Giants but was not retained when Joe Judge was hired as the team's head coach following the 2019 season. His new role at Maryland was first reported by Terrapin Times. The position on the Terps' staff had been open for months, but Maryland could not have spring practices because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, so Baker will not have missed any on-field work with the team. Baker previously coached at North Carolina (2018), Rutgers (2017) and Delaware (2011-16), serving as cornerbacks coach at all three stops. Baker played at Maryland from 1994 to 1997 and returned in 2008 to work on then-coach Ralph Friedgen's staff. - Washington Post

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CB *Deonte Banks, Maryland
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05/17/20 - Taulia Tagovailoa, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 185 (DS#12 QB) + More +

A week before he informed Mike Locksley of his decision to transfer to Maryland, Taulia Tagovailoa had to make a more difficult phone call to a different head coach. Nick Saban. It's rarely easy to tell a coach you've decided to transfer. That's especially true when your family has the kind of history the Tagovailoas have with Saban and Alabama. So why is Taulia moving on? It comes down, at least partly, to opportunity. "It's really tough and it's nothing against Alabama," Galu Tagovailoa, Taulia's father, told AL.com. "But my boys are competitive and Lia is such a competitive kid. And he wanted an opportunity to compete. He was told that he was going to come in and compete and he didn't really get that opportunity, so he wanted to use the spring to do that. But with the COVID-19 thing going on, he didn't really have the opportunity to compete. He's a competitor. He likes to work. He likes to compete on the field. And just, going into the season this year, he just felt that he wasn't given that opportunity and he wants to take it somewhere where they're going to give him the opportunity to make the best of his skill set."

While Taulia appeared in five games as a freshman at Alabama last season, it was strictly during mop-up time. That was the case even after his brother, star QB Tua Tagovailoa, sustained a season-ending hip injury in mid-November. With Tua out, Mac Jones took over as the Crimson Tide's starting quarterback and is the current favorite to win Alabama's starting QB job entering this year. All of that factored into the transfer decision for Taulia. - Birmingham News

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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05/16/20 - Taulia Tagovailoa, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 185 (DS#12 QB) + More +

It was last Friday at about 6 p.m. that Taulia Tagovailoa entered the NCAA transfer portal. Exactly one week later, the former Alabama quarterback and younger brother of Tua Tagovailoa has decided on his new team. The family's relationship with Maryland head coach Mike Locksley surely played a significant role in the decision. Locksley was Alabama's offensive coordinator when Tua was a Heisman finalist in 2018. Now, Locksley will get a chance to work with Tua's younger brother, a former four-star recruit who had been set to compete for the Tide's starting quarterback job before deciding to transfer. Taulia appeared in five games as a freshman last season and ended the year as Mac Jones' backup at quarterback after Tua suffered his season-ending hip injury against Mississippi State. - Birmingham News

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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05/16/20 - Taulia Tagovailoa, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 185 (DS#12 QB) + More +

Mike Locksley was in the middle of his Instagram Live show Friday night, somewhere around the point that he was interviewing Baltimore Orioles legend Cal Ripken, when his phone started buzzing. Over and over again. Finally, after finishing the show and seeing his 75 new text messages, the Maryland head coach realized what happened. Taulia Tagovailoa, the former Alabama quarterback and younger brother of former Crimson Tide star QB Tua Tagovailoa, had announced on Twitter he was transferring to Maryland. It's an announcement - a massive piece of news for Locksley and Maryland - that came as a surprise to many in the college football world. Including Locksley.

"As I'm in the middle of the show, which starts at 7 o'clock Eastern time here, I just know my phone started blowing up and buzzing and buzzing and buzzing," Locksley, who was Tua's offensive coordinator at Alabama in 2018, told AL.com. "So I looked down and saw I had a missed call from an 808 (Hawaii) number. And then I was finishing my show and by the time I finished the show, probably around 7:35 or 7:40, my phone had just blown up that Taulia had said he was coming to Maryland. So I called him back and he said, 'Hey Coach, as a family we've prayed about it and I'm coming to Maryland." While he expects Taulia to have to redshirt this season, the former four-star recruit will then have three years of eligibility remaining for the Terps. - Birmingham News

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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05/09/20 - Taulia Tagovailoa, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 185 (DS#12 QB) + More +

One Tagovailoa left the Alabama program earlier this year. Now, another one is leaving, too. Sophomore quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, the younger brother of former Crimson Tide star QB Tua Tagovailoa, entered the NCAA transfer portal Friday, AL.com has learned. Prior to spring practice being canceled, Taulia had been set to compete with Mac Jones and five-star freshman Bryce Young for the starting quarterback job that was opened up by his brother's decision to depart Alabama for the NFL. Instead, it will now just be Jones and Young competing for the job. A former four-star recruit, Taulia appeared in five games as a freshman last season and ended the year as Jones' backup at quarterback after Tua suffered his season-ending hip injury against Mississippi State. Taulia's most extensive action came during mop-up time of the Tide's win over Arkansas and during the team's blowout win over Western Carolina. - Birmingham News

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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04/26/20 - *Anthony McFarland Jr., rSo/2020, Maryland, 5-08, 208 (DS#10 RB) + More +

The Pittsburgh Steelers added a pair of Maryland standouts in the NFL draft Saturday, taking running back Anthony McFarland Jr. in the fourth round and safety Antoine Brooks Jr. in the sixth round. McFarland, the No. 124 overall pick, was the first Terp taken in the 2020 draft. Brooks was taken at No. 198. A former top recruit at DeMatha Catholic who redshirted his freshman season in College Park, McFarland rushed for a combined 1,648 yard yards in 2018 and 2019. He averaged nearly 8 yards per carry en route to Freshman All-America honors, but his production slipped last season (5.4 yards per carry) as he dealt with a high-ankle sprain. The 5-foot-8, 208-pound McFarland impressed at the NFL scouting combine with his 4.44-second 40-yard dash. He's also a capable receiver, catching 17 passes for 126 yards last season. - Baltimore Sun

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RB *Anthony McFarland Jr., Maryland
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04/19/20 - Keandre Jones, Sr/2020, Maryland, 6-1, 220 (DS#30 OLB) + More +

In three years of varsity football at Good Counsel, a private school in Olney in Montgomery County that has been a traditional powerhouse in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference, Keandre Jones could play at all three levels of the defense. But he excelled as a pass-rushing linebacker. In his final two high school seasons, Jones totaled 196 tackles, 13 sacks and two interceptions en route to being ranked as a top-10 recruit by ESPN, Rivals and 247Sports. "I know his specialty was coming from the linebacker position or strong safety and coming off the edge and getting to that quarterback real fast," recalled Bob Milloy, who coached the Falcons for 16 years before retiring after the 2016 season. "He made things happen out there." After three relatively quiet seasons at Ohio State, Jones transferred to Maryland for his senior year and set career highs in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks last fall. And that performance has him poised to be selected in the NFL draft, which begins Thursday night. - Baltimore Sun

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OLB Keandre Jones, Maryland
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04/15/20 - Ellis McKennie, rSr/2020, Maryland, 6-4, 310 (DS#999 OG) + More +

Ellis McKennie III has not given much thought to the NFL draft, and for good reason. McKennie, who last fall completed his fifth year of eligibility as a starting offensive lineman for the Maryland football team, has been preoccupied by the health of his father Ellis McKennie Jr., who was afflicted by the coronavirus. After 15 days in a medically induced coma, the elder McKennie was discharged Monday from the hospital - a huge relief for the younger McKennie, who grew up in Randallstown and graduated from McDonogh. "Everything took a backseat," McKennie, 22, said Wednesday afternoon. "My professors have been extremely understanding as I finish up my master's [in public policy] right now, but it's kind of hard to focus on something else while this was going on with my father. I spent a lot of my days at the hospital, trying to sit there, and even when I came back, it was hard to switch my mind into work mode or something else just knowing what he was going through or what my mom was going through." Ellis McKennie Jr., 51, began to feel nauseated and tired and started coughing sometime in March, according to Jodi McKennie, his wife of 22 years. Not one to normally complain, McKennie was confined to bed in their home in McSherrystown, Pennsylvania, for two days, and after talking to his brother, he asked his wife to take him to the emergency room at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in nearby Hanover on March 18. - Baltimore Sun

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OG Ellis McKennie, Maryland
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03/19/20 - *Deonte Banks, Jr/2023, Maryland, 6-0, 203 (DS#4 CB) + More +

Cory Robinson, Maryland's cornerbacks coach and defensive passing game coordinator, left the program to take a job as a defensive assistant with the New Orleans Saints, he announced Thursday on Twitter. Robinson's departure comes around the time Maryland would have begun spring practice, but the Big Ten announced last week that all organized team activities have been suspended until at least April 6 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Coach Michael Locksley appeared to have finalized his 2020 staff in early February, but he will now need to fill another role. Robinson joined Maryland's staff a year ago after Locksley took over the program. Robinson signed a two-year deal through the end of the 2020 season, but his contract does not require a buyout for leaving to accept a position with an NFL team. The Baltimore native was a key recruiter for the Terrapins, and now Maryland will have to find a replacement at an awkward time in the coach-hiring cycle. - Baltimore Sun

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CB *Deonte Banks, Maryland
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02/15/20 - Antoine Brooks Jr., Sr/2020, Maryland, 5-11, 220 (DS#4 SS) + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Antoine Brooks Jr., SS, Maryland,...Brooks, who recently played in the Reese's Senior Bowl, was a Second Team All-Big Ten selection for the second straight year in 2019. The senior led the Big Ten and ranked ninth nationally with 69 solo tackles. He ranked third in the Big Ten among defensive backs with 87 total tackles. Brooks also tied for the team lead with five pass break-ups. - Maryland Football

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SS Antoine Brooks Jr., Maryland
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02/15/20 - *Javon Leake, Jr/2020, Maryland, 6-0, 215 (DS#16 RB) + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Javon Leake, RB, Maryland,...Leake tallied 1,487 kick return yards and 1,144 rushing yards while reaching the end zone 20 times during his three seasons at Maryland. He owns the fifth-most kick return yards in program history and was named the 2019 Rodgers-Dwight Big Ten Return Specialist of the Year after he led the conference in kick return yards (804), kick return average (26.8) and kick return touchdowns (two) this past season. A 2019 Big Ten Honorable Mention selection as a rusher, Leake posted 736 yards on 102 carries during his junior season. His 7.22 yards per carry average ranked third among all FBS running backs. - Maryland Football

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RB *Javon Leake, Maryland
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02/15/20 - *Anthony McFarland Jr., rSo/2020, Maryland, 5-08, 208 (DS#10 RB) + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Anthony McFarland Jr., RB, Maryland,...McFarland tallied 1,648 rushing yards in just two seasons as a Terp, the 21st most in program history. The DMV product averaged 6.7 yards per carry on 245 career attempts, good for the third-best average in the Maryland books, trailing only Chet Hanulak ('53) and Ty Johnson ('18). The two-year back tallied 12 rushing touchdowns over 23 games and six 100-yard games, tied for the ninth most in program history.

A 2018 Second Team All-Big Ten selection, McFarland starred during his redshirt freshman season in College Park, setting Maryland freshman records for rushing yards (1,034), most rushing yards in a game (298 vs. Ohio State) and most 100-yard rushing games (four). His 1,034 rushing yards in 2018 ranked as the ninth most in a season in program history and his yards per carry mark ranked fifth in the nation. With the 298-yard game vs. Ohio State and a 210-yard game the week before at Indiana, McFarland became only the second Maryland player ever to record back-to-back 200-yard games. - Maryland Football

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RB *Anthony McFarland Jr., Maryland
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01/01/20 - Tyrese Chambers, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 188 (DS#208 WR) + More +

2019 ALL-NORTHEAST CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): WR Tyrese Chambers, Sacred Heart, R-Fr.,...Headlining the group of four All-NEC First Teamers on offense, tied with CCSU for the most in the league, is the Rookie of the Year Chambers who was the only first-year in the conference to earn All-NEC honors on offense or defense. Having been named a finalist for the Jerry Rice Award yesterday, Chambers adds another distinctive award to his resume with today's announcement. The go-to receiver for the Pioneers all season set SHU rookie records across the board with 50 receptions for 811 yards, 16.2 yards per catch and eight TD. Chambers' 811 receiving yards are fifth-most among FCS first-years while his eight TD are second-most among freshman in the nation. - Sacred Heart Football

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WR Tyrese Chambers, Maryland
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12/05/19 - *Javon Leake, Jr/2020, Maryland, 6-0, 215 (DS#16 RB) + More +

2019 ALL-BIG TEN FIRST TEAM (COACHES): KR Javon Leake, Maryland,...Leake was voted as the Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year after leading the Big Ten and ranking third in the FCS with 804 kickoff return yards and a pair of kickoff return touchdowns. Leake's 26.8 yards per kickoff return average also led all Big Ten players and ranked 13th nationally. - Maryland Football

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RB *Javon Leake, Maryland
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12/05/19 - Antoine Brooks Jr., Sr/2020, Maryland, 5-11, 220 (DS#4 SS) + More +

2019 ALL-BIG TEN SECOND TEAM (COACHES): DB Antoine Brooks, Maryland,...Brooks was named Second Team All-Big Ten by the coaches for the second straight year. The leagues media named Brooks to the third team. Brooks led the Big Ten and ranks ninth nationally with 69 solo tackles. He ranks third in the Big Ten among defensive backs with 87 total tackles. Brooks also tied for the team lead with five pass break-ups. - Maryland Football

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SS Antoine Brooks Jr., Maryland
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