Taking a Look at the DB’s
July 28th, 2010Posted by bwevodau
When you are coming off of a 2-10 season, it leaves a lot of room for improvement. In fact, the Terps would probably be hard pressed to put in a worse defensive effort than 2009. Let’s hope they aren’t up for that challenge. Though there was plenty of finger pointing to go around, the Terp Secondary certainly didn’t do much to help the cause. But that was 2009 and this is 2010.
How bad was it? Well the Terps finished 12th in the ACC in scoring defense. For those who aren’t familiar with the ACC, there are only 12 teams in the conference, so you can draw your own conclusion. The Pass defense gave up 21 TD’s and 245.5 yards per game. They took away 10 interceptions (though some of those can be credited to the LB Corp) but that still leaves 2.1 TD’s for each INT. Speaking of interceptions the Terps finished 8th in the conference, which is a little better than they did for scoring defense, but still not exactly a team strength.
Junior Cameron Chism looks to tighten up the pass defense, he led the team with 4 interceptions which accounted for 40% of all INT’s for the Terps last year. He also recorded 66 tackles. Kenny Tate is also looking to take a step forward. The converted WR will enter his junior year and has an additional year of experience under his belt. Kenny had one interception, 1.5 sacks and 47 tackles last year. He will probably have to build on those numbers if the Terps are going to have success stopping the pass.
Joining Chism and Tate is Antwine Perez. The USC transfer (who maybe knew about the recent penalties USC was about to get) has yet to live up to the hype, but that could all change quickly for the Senior. Perez last season had 1 sack and 45 tackles. This was after sitting out a season, so there is hope that he can carry a larger load moving forward. Junior Trenton Hughes looks to make the next step this season. He played in all 12 games last year, and is looking to become a bigger factor in his 3rd year. Finally Junior Austin Walker joins the list of DB’s who played in 11 or more games.
Of course it doesn’t take long going through the Terps list of DB’s to see that there is plenty of young talent available, and it is almost inevitable that someone will step up out of no where. Who that is, well we will have to wait and see, but you can believe the fate of the Terps in 2010 is going to fall heavily Chism, Tate, and Perez.
So there is a quick look at DB’s for the Terps, we have a lot of key guys coming back and there is reason to believe that this unit will put together a better campaign this year than last. Let’s certainly hope so because if the DB’s were to regress or fail to tighten things up, a Bowl Game is probably not going to happen.
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