COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Pro Day is sort of a job interview for future NFL hopefuls.
Friday, 14 Maryland Terrapins football gamers auditioned for his or her dream job on the Jones Hill House on the campus of the University of Maryland.
66 scouts have been in College Park representing 31 of the 32 NFL Teams, the Denver Broncos have been the one staff not in attendance.
In the phrases of head coach Mike Locksley, Friday’s turnout is proof high-level athletes can come to Maryland and excel.
“Loads of these guys, I sat of their dwelling rooms, and I bought the imaginative and prescient of what I assumed Maryland football might and would do for them, and I believe right this moment is a end result of that imaginative and prescient and seeing it actually come to life,” says Locksley.
Participating in Pro Day have been gamers like vast reciever Tai Felton, whose 96 catches this previous season grew to become a program file.
“Over right here at Maryland, it is developmental. Coach Locksley goes to get you proper. You simply keep down, stick with the grind, imagine in your self, belief the method and the coaches they will put you the place you wanna be,” says Felton.
Various athletes stood out at Pro Day, like linebacker Reuben Hyppolite, clocking a 4.3, operating the 40-yard sprint.
“It was nice to be out right here to carry out in a setting like this with all these groups right here. Like I mentioned, I anticipated this. I used to be very diligent in my work and in my course of of preparing for it,” says Hyppolite.
Another common identify was defensive again Dante Trader Jr., who was additionally a member of the lacrosse staff at Maryland.
“You dream of issues like this. You dream of going to the mix, you dream of competing along with your brothers on the native and Pro Day. You gotta take the great and the dangerous with this expertise by means of all of it, you realize it is a lengthy 4 or 5 months and an extended 4 years on this course of to get movie, to get coaching to undergo ups and downs. So you simply gotta cowl this time with grace,” says Trader Jr.
One of the youngest gamers at Pro Day was Jordan Phillips. The red-shirt sophomore defensive deal with was full of confidence
“The factor that is so particular about me is that I’ve performed in a number of schemes; vertical, learn and react. I’ve performed something from the zero all the best way outdoors the 5. So, you might put me anyplace on the sphere, I’m gonna dominate and I’m gonna dominate whoever’s in entrance of me, and I really feel that is what’s particular about me,” says Phillips.
This yr’s NFL draft begins on Thursday April 24 in Green Bay Wisconsin.
