Stefon Diggs

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Terrapins football wide receiver Stefon Diggs will delay any decision regarding the NFL draft until after Tuesday’s Foster Farms Bowl, coach Randy Edsall said Saturday.

Edsall sat down with Diggs and the junior’s mother, Stephanie, earlier this month to discuss plans and answer any questions the family has about the process. At the meeting, which lasted more than an hour, Diggs told Edsall he isn’t “leaning any way” about whether to stay in school for his senior season or embark on a professional career.

“He wants to play the game, and he’ll worry about it after the game is over,” Edsall said. “Alls I want him to do is just go out and play and have fun.”

Over the past couple months, Edsall, a defensive backs coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the mid-90s, reached out to a number of NFL sources to gauge interest in Diggs and get an idea of the receiver’s potential draft stock before the Terps play Stanford in the bowl game.

“I went on a fact-finding mission. He’s one of my sons basically, one of my players, and so it’s my obligation and duty to go out and gather the information from the different parties,” Edsall said. “Ultimately, they have to make the decision. They’re the ones that have to live with it and have to make it work — whichever decision they make. And alls you want to do as a parent, a teacher, a coach, a mentor is give them the information necessary in order to make the best decision possible.”

The fourth-year coach wouldn’t share any of that “private” intel, but he said it was important for Diggs to understand his position and consider all of his options.

“You’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to list the pros and cons — the pros and cons of staying; the pros and cons of leaving — and weigh it all out. And you go from there,” Edsall said. “Whatever decision he makes, I’ll support him 100 percent.”

Diggs missed the final three games of the regular season — one because of suspension and two because of a lacerated kidney — but still led the Terps in receiving yards (654), receptions (52) and receiving touchdowns (5). He was cleared for contact at the beginning of December and has participated in all of the team’s bowl practices.

“He’s looking good,” quarterback C.J. Brown said. “We’re excited to have him back out there practicing. I feel like he’s up to full speed again.”

SENIORS SAY GOODBYE

A number of Terps seniors including Brown and inside linebacker Cole Farrand practiced at Byrd Stadium for the final time last week. The team received two days off for the holidays before departing for San Francisco on Christmas.

“Being there for as long as I have, having those last practices was definitely emotional,” said Brown, a sixth-year graduate student who received his master’s degree in supply-chain management. “We definitely took an instance and just kind of reflected and looked around and said goodbye.”

As is tradition for the last home practice of the season, the Terps seniors exchanged jerseys with younger players and wore them during the session. Brown swapped with junior running back Albert Reid while Farrand traded his red defensive jersey for junior kicker Brad Craddock’s white one.

“It was a little funny, I was out on the defense and the whole defense was wearing red except me,” said Farrand, who graduated with a degree in economics a week ago. “I was wearing the white, so it was confusing the offense a little bit.”

CRADDOCK PREPARES FOR BAY AREA WIND

Craddock is no stranger to swirling winds, having kicked on the road at Beaver Stadium, where he connected on a game-winning field goal in the closing minute to lead the Terps to a rain-soaked victory over Penn State in early November.

Still, the 2014 Lou Groza Award winner is doing his due diligence to garner a grasp of how the conditions at Levi’s Stadium, the host site of the Foster Farms Bowl, might impact the kicking game.

Craddock said would contact former Terp Nick Novak, now the kicker for the San Diego Chargers, for some advice. Novak clinched a 38-35 win over the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium a week ago with a 40-yard field goal in overtime.

“I’ll talk to him and see how his thought process was,” Craddock said. “[The wind] doesn’t seem to bad from what I’ve seen.”