Maryland football

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The Maryland football squad made information technology dorsum to a bowl game in 2016, defeated a pinnacle 25 opponent on the road to open the 2022 season and has reeled in several top recruits recently.

Just at that place is i thing the Terrapins have not been able to shake: the bad luck of quarterback injuries.

Maryland'due south top ii quarterbacks, sophomore Tyrrell Pigrome and true freshman Kasim Hill, have both torn their ACL and will miss the rest of the season.

Over the ii years of the DJ Durkin era, Maryland has had four different starting quarterbacks. In two direct seasons, the Terps will be forced to requite their third-string quarterback the start for a Big Ten game.

"You don't see this happening at a lot of places — if at all," wide receiver Jacquille Veii said. "It'south something that I've thought about a lot, I'm starting to recollect information technology's a curse amidst the position."

If it really is a curse, it didn't only showtime with Durkin. In 2015, Maryland was forced to play iv quarterbacks, including at present-linebacker Shane Cockerille, due to injuries and poor play. That unit was picked off an NCAA-high 29 times, about ii.5 interceptions per game.

Prior to that, in 2013, iii Terps quarterbacks were victims ACL tears and, in 2012, Maryland used Shawn Piffling, another player that switched to linebacker, as a quarterback.

Whether or not it's a curse, it's simply something Durkin says the team has to overcome.

"It'due south office of the game unfortunately. When information technology happens at the same position, that makes things a little tougher, but it's part of life. It's a great way to learn."

The second-year caput coach views these moments of adversity equally the main reason why football is so of import.

"I laugh when people talk about 'Should our youth play football?'" Durkin said. "It's the greatest instructor of life lessons of annihilation you lot could do. This is function of it. There'due south going to exist worse things that happen in life as well, unfortunately it's part of it. Our guys – they're resilient. They're going to bounce back."

The Terps will get a chance to bounce dorsum in a big way — they will travel to Minnesota for the first time in program history to take on the 3-0 Golden Gophers.