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NOV 2 BIG TEN CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland, So., QB, Ewa Beach, Hawaii/Thompson,...Became the third Big Ten player in the last 20 seasons to notch 350 passing yards, three passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns in a single game as Maryland defeated Minnesota in overtime...Completed 26-of-35 passes for 394 yards, the 10th most single-game passing yards in school history and the most since Danny O'Brien passed for 417 yards against N.C. State in 2010...Added 59 rushing yards, including a 39-yard touchdown in the first quarter...Collects his first career Offensive Player of the Week award...Last Maryland Offensive Player of the Week: Javon Leake (Oct. 29, 2018). - Big Ten football

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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10/30/20 - Taulia Tagovailoa, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 185 (DS#12 QB) + More +

A crazy, thrilling game ended abruptly in overtime when Minnesota's Brock Walker missed a conversion kick after a potential tying touchdown, giving Maryland a stunning 45-44 comeback victory Friday night. After the Terrapins rallied from a 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter to force overtime, Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa ran for a 2-yard touchdown and Joseph Peterino kicked the extra point to give the Terrapins - who came in as 19-point underdogs - a 45-38 lead. Minnesota answered with a 2-yard touchdown run by Seth Green before Walker's extra-point try sailed wide right to end this Big Ten duel. Tagovailoa went 26 for 35 for 394 yards and three touchdowns in his second college start. He also ran for 59 yards and two scores to help the Terrapins (1-1) bounce back from a season-opening 43-3 loss to Northwestern. He became the first Maryland quarterback to throw for 300 yards since Caleb Rowe against Virginia in 2013. - Maryland/AP College Football

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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10/28/20 - Taulia Tagovailoa, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 185 (DS#12 QB) + More +

The Maryland football team arrived back in College Park around 4 a.m. Sunday after a disappointing defeat at Northwestern. The loss already had marinated for a few hours on the bus and plane as the team traveled home. Some coaches slept at the team facility, and the players returned by noon Sunday for their daily novel coronavirus testing. Quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa began his work an hour earlier than required - watching the video from his Maryland debut that three times left him walking to the sideline after an interception. "We all have the responsibility of personally being accountable for what we put on tape and how we coach - players and coaches included," Coach Michael Locksley said. "There's no doubt in my mind that Lia took personal accountability for how he played on Saturday."

Locksley, a former quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator, meets with his quarterbacks the Sunday after games. Any loss brings urgency and some reassurance that another opportunity will come soon. For Tagovailoa, the next chance arrives Friday night against visiting Minnesota. Locksley said he is "100 percent" committed to Tagovailoa as Maryland's starter. The sophomore's performance at Northwestern - 14-for-25 passing for 94 yards with three interceptions in a 43-3 loss - could be remembered as merely one bad showing, albeit the Terrapins' worst defeat in an opener since 1892, the team's inaugural season. If Tagovailoa becomes the Terps' long-awaited stable quarterback, that game could become one of more than 30. "We're going to watch film and watch the mistakes," Tagovailoa said after the season opener. "I have full faith in Coach Locks and our whole team that we're going to come back better from this." - Washington Post

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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09/06/20 - Josh Jackson, rSr/2022, Maryland, 6-1, 218 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Six Maryland players decided to opt out of the fall season last month, including three starters: quarterback Josh Jackson, offensive lineman Johnny Jordan and offensive lineman Austin Fontaine. Defensive lineman Jalen Alexander, defensive back Vincent Flythe and linebacker TJ Kautai also chose to sit out. They made that decision when the Big Ten planned to play a 10-game conference schedule. With the postponement, Maryland players are instead spending the fall on campus and attending noncontact practices, workouts and meetings. Some of these players, Locksley said, were content with ending their football careers. (Before the Big Ten announced its postponement, Locksley said that Jackson, who transferred to Maryland as a graduate student before last season, had "probably played his last football.")

When asked whether these players who opted out would have the ability to opt back in and potentially play in the winter, Locksley said Aug. 13: "The way I see it, whether we were playing a season or not, the guys that opted out chose to opt out [of] the preseason workouts, so that's not an area that I've even thought about just yet. Obviously we'll handle a lot of them on a case-by-case basis." - Washington Post

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QB Josh Jackson, Maryland
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08/08/20 - Taulia Tagovailoa, rSr/2024, Maryland, 5-11, 185 (DS#12 QB) + More +

Taulia Tagovailoa has been granted an NCAA waiver to play this fall for Maryland, a source confirmed to AL.com. Tagovailoa, the younger brother of Miami Dolphin QB Tua Tagovailoa, left the Alabama program in May. Without the NCAA waiver granting him immediate eligibility, Tagovailoa would have had to sit out this season and use his redshirt. ESPN first reported the news. Taulia Tagovailoa appeared in five games for the Crimson Tide in 2019, throwing for one touchdown and 100 total yards. The 5-foot-11 quarterback was a four-star recruit out of Thompson High School and threw for 3,726 yards and 35 touchdowns his senior season. After landing the younger Tagovailoa as a transfer in May, Maryland head coach Mike Locksley told AL.com "his accuracy is really what kind of jumps out to me as a passer." - Birmingham News

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QB Taulia Tagovailoa, Maryland
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08/07/20 - Josh Jackson, rSr/2022, Maryland, 6-1, 218 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Maryland senior quarterback Josh Jackson has opted out of the upcoming football season, leaving the Terrapins with very little depth and experience at the pivotal position. Jackson is the most prominent of six Maryland players who have decided not to play in 2020 for reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic, coach Michael Locksley said during a teleconference Friday. Jackson played in 10 games last year for Maryland after transferring from Virginia Tech. He went 98 for 207 for 1,274 yards and 12 touchdowns with six interceptions. His backup was Tyrrell Pigrome, who transferred to Western Kentucky during the offseason. With Jackson out, Locksley is hoping the NCAA will grant a transfer waiver to former Alabama quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, the younger brother of Tua Tagovailoa, who starred at Alabama and was selected fifth overall by Miami in the 2020 NFL draft. - AP College Football

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QB Josh Jackson, Maryland
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07/27/20 - Jake Funk, rSr/2021, Maryland, 5-10, 204 (DS#29 RB) + More +

2020 WUERFFEL TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Jake Funk, Maryland, senior, running back,...A three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection who has accumulated 518 yards and nine touchdowns over 31 games played in a Maryland uniform, Jake Funk enters his senior campaign in College Park as a team leader who looks to have a productive 2020 season in the backfield. - Maryland Football

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RB Jake Funk, Maryland
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07/25/20 - Chigoziem Okonkwo, Sr/2022, Maryland, 6-3, 243 (DS#1 FB) + More +

2020 JOHN MACKEY AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Chigoziem Okonkwo, Maryland,...Okonkwo has appeared in all 24 games and scored six touchdowns since his arrival in College Park in 2018. He ranked second on the team in receptions (19) and third in receiving yards (201) while playing alongside Tyler Mabry, who was named to the Mackey Award Watch List last season, during his sophomore campaign in 2019. - Maryland Football

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FB Chigoziem Okonkwo, Maryland
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06/17/20 - Joseph Boletepeli, rSr/2023, Maryland, 6-4, 280 (DS#999 DE) + More +

Joseph Boletepeli didn't enter the game on the Saturday that North Carolina State's football team played West Virginia University in 2019. The next time he walks onto the field with the Mountaineers, it'll be while wearing old gold and blue. Boletepeli announced on Twitter on Tuesday that he was transferring from N.C. State to WVU. The rising redshirt sophomore defensive lineman played in 10 games over two seasons with the Wolfpack - three in 2018 and seven in 2019. Last season, he finished with 11 tackles, 2 1/2 for a loss and 1 1/2 sacks in seven games as a backup. He did not participate versus WVU. His defensive coordinator for last season was a familiar face to Mountaineer fans - former WVU defensive coordinator Tony Gibson. - Charleston Gazette-Mail

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DE Joseph Boletepeli, Maryland
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06/03/20 - *Deonte Banks, Jr/2023, Maryland, 6-0, 203 (DS#4 CB) + More +

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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