The Maryland football team added another quarterback Wednesday, but he won’t have the opportunity to try and take Perry Hills’ starting job this season.
The Terps announced the addition of Caleb Henderson, a Lake Braddock graduate who transferred from North Carolina after one season. Henderson has to sit out a year per NCAA regulations, but he still has two years of eligibility remaining.
Before joining the Tar Heels, Henderson was a four-star recruit and the seventh-best prospect in Virginia, according to 247Sports.
“It will be really good for us,” coach DJ Durkin said Friday. “He’s an experienced guy. He’s been around college football for awhile now. He has familiarity with our offense. It is very similar at the previous program, what they run and what we run.”
With Hills and quarterback Caleb Rowe graduating after this season, Henderson will have a chance to earn for the starting job in 2017. He’ll compete against quarterbacks Gage Shaffer, Tyrrell Pigrome and Max Bortenschlager.
Next season, the Terps will also welcome four-star quarterback Kasim Hill, the second-best 2017 recruit in Maryland, per 247Sports. The recruiting website also has the Baltimore native ranked as the 11th-best pro-style quarterback in the country.
“We’re going to be young at that spot,” Durkin said, “so I think it timed up really well for us.”
