Former Maryland running back Anthony McFarland Jr., who is currently preparing for the 2020 NFL Draft, says his fresh legs — which stem from a healthy competition in the Terps’ backfield — will help him at the next level.
McFarland was a highly-regarded recruit when he committed to Maryland, but he redshirted in 2017 since he was working his way back into shape after breaking his fibula early in his senior year at DeMatha in 2016. He then got the bulk of the team’s carries in 2018 and shared carries with Javon Leake and Tayon Fleet-Davis in 2019.
The 5-foot-9, 198-pound McFarland totaled 245 carries during that two-year period. Meanwhile, top draft prospects like Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor (926 career carries), Ohio State’s J.K. Dobbins (725) and Georgia’s D’Andre Swift (440) all toted the rock far more than McFarland.
“It’s definitely a good deal because I feel like even though I played in college, I don’t have a lot of wear and tear on my body,” McFarland said on Glenn Clark Radio March 19. “I feel like that helps me a lot coming into the next level and the pros, that I’m coming in almost kind of with fresh legs. I’m not a guy that has so many carries in my career, so I feel like that’s the good side of things.”
