After playing his final football season at Maryland, Keandre Jones is preparing for the NFL Draft and encouraging local players to become Terps.
Jones, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound linebacker from Olney, Md., originally committed to the Terps in 2014. But head coach Randy Edsall was fired in 2015, and interim Michael Locksley was passed over for the full-time head coaching position. Jones decided to decommit from Maryland in January 2016. Jones signed a letter of intent a month later to play at Ohio State.
But after three years in Columbus, Ohio, where he totaled 29 tackles and one sack, Jones wanted to finish his collegiate career playing at home with Locksley, who took over as the Terps’ head coach in December 2018.
“It was a great opportunity for me to come back home and be around my family and friends,” Jones said on Glenn Clark Radio March 24. “[To] finish out my senior year where I started playing football and to be able to play in the Big Ten was something I always dreamed about. Playing in a league like this and getting to go back and play against Ohio State was a great experience.”
