Former Maryland linebacker E.J. Henderson was selected as part of the 2020 College Football Hall of Fame class — but this honor doesn’t go to just anyone.
He’ll be just the seventh Terp to be inducted and the first since Stan Jones in 2000. Only 0.02 percent of college football players and coaches make it into the Hall of Fame.
“It worked out, it definitely did,” Henderson said of his football career as a whole on Glenn Clark Radio March 12. “All the fans, I did it for y’all,” he added.
Henderson received All-American and ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors during his junior (2001) and senior (2002) seasons. As a senior, he was named ACC Player of the Year and earned the Bednarik and Butkus Awards.
Head coach Ralph Friedgen took over the team in 2001. After going 10-12 from 1999-2000, the Terps finished 2001 with a 10-1 regular-season mark.
