Maryland football: Senior Bowl honors, Freshman All-American selection, first NFL roster cut

Ahmed Ghafir
Aug 20
2 min read

The latest news on current and former Terps around college football and the NFL:

Senior Bowl honors…with the Senior Bowl trimming down to a Top 300 list beginning this year, Maryland had one appearance on the 2026 list with safety Jalen Huskey recognized. Huskey, a transfer from Bowling Green, started in 11 games and appeared in all 12 in 2024 as he posted 45 tackles (21 solo), 2.5 TFLs, four passes defended, three interceptions, one blocked kick and one fumble recovery in his first season with the program. His ten tackles vs. Oregon marked a career high, while he recorded interceptions in three consecutive games last season. Huskey was one of three players who represented the program at Big Ten Media Day alongside head coach Mike Locksley as the starting safety is expected to anchor Maryland’s secondary in 2025. Dan Brugler of The Athletic previously ranked Huskey as the 12^th-best draft eligible safety in 2026 as Maryland is in line to produce a defensive back in the NFL Draft for the fifth consecutive year. “He's a guy that has corner skill set while playing in deep part of the field, which allows us a lot more versatility because he can play man coverage,” Locksley said midway through fall camp. “He can cover slots, he can cover tight ends, and that adds value to our defense when you have a safety that has that ability to match up the way Jalen allows us to.”

All-American honors…while Maryland will turn to several young pieces in 2025 with over 42% of the roster has played in no more than five games and 72% of the roster underclassmen, buzz about an impact piece in the trenches took the next step on Wednesday after freshman edge Sidney Stewart was named to the 247Sports Freshman All-American team on Monday. Stewart, a former three-star out of Concordia Prep, has drawn buzz as a potential sleeper signing since last fall after he was controversially ruled ineligible for the 2024 season. Still Stewart, grandson of former NBA forward Larry Stewart, made the best of it where the weight room became a very familiar face prior to arriving in College Park back in January. “I didn't play last season so really was getting heavy after the weights to make sure I was the right way to play at a college level, which is part of reason why I'm so comfortable,” Stewart told local media last week. Maryland will now turn to Stewart as a big piece in the Terps’ pass rush solution as the defense looks to build on the 14 sacks in 2024, tying two teams for 128^th nationally among FBS teams.

First casualty of roster cuts…with preseason winding down, the first former Terp saw his fate decided on Tuesday after the Buffalo Bills announced they were waiving WR Kaden Prather, their seventh-round selection in the 2025 NFL Draft, while signing veteran WR Gabe Davis. Prather was released with an injury designation after battling a hamstring injury through camp, but logged just ten snaps and one target in Sunday’s blowout loss vs. Chicago.

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