For several years now, Maryland football has been at its best when it’s running the ball. The injury carousel that has inflicted Terrapin quarterbacks at an inconceivable rate miraculously hasn’t spread through the backfield. Maryland rushed for 1,940 yards in 2017, the exact same number it recorded through the air.
This season, 95 percent of those rushing yards are coming back.
Ninety-five percent. And the rest was from a wide receiver and a quarterback.
It’s a backfield with two established stalwarts in senior Ty Johnson and junior Lorenzo Harrison, who earned the “Presidential Backfield” moniker before combining for 1,497 yards on the ground last fall.