By Ethan Cadeaux

Although Maryland football's highly anticipated road battle with the Texas Longhorns is just over 3 weeks abroad, Terrapins' head omnibus DJ Durkin has all the same to proper name his starting quarterback.

"I don't accept a set up engagement or day or time when nosotros desire to make some sort of decision," Durkin said. "I want to allow it sort itself out on the field and let the players make up one's mind."

Caleb Henderson, a junior transfer from North Carolina, sophomores Tyrrell Pigrome and Max Bortenschlager, and freshman Kasim Loma all have the possibility of winning the quarterback job in the outset season since the tumultuous Perry Hills-Caleb Rowe era.

"Nosotros haven't really had whatever scrimmages or anything like that," Durkin said. "We're still going with what our plan was going into army camp in terms of dividing up the reps and keeping them even on how many reps they're getting, how many reps with the ones or the twos."

Wednesday'south practice simply marked Maryland's 7th of autumn camp. Durkin however has plenty of time before the opener as to who will be his indicate caller.

"Later we become through our kickoff big scrimmage this weekend, I recollect we'll start to conform and change what those reps are," he said.

While Henderson may be a slight border to win the task, he'due south currently dealing with an injury that could change the competition. Durkin said "he'due south probably somewhere around 85 or 90 [percent]," just is "able to do everything at practice."

In such a close competition, Henderson cannot afford to miss time. After spending two years at North Carolina cached on the depth chart behind Marquise Williams and current Chicago Bears' quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, Henderson transferred to Maryland with the goal to earn a starting quarterback job.

"I retrieve it's competitive," sophomore running back Lorenzo Harrison said on the quarterback competition. "We accept a lot of guys working hard, trying to get the No. one spot. I'm waiting to see who comes out No. 1."

Pigrome appeared in 11 games his freshman flavour, and showed flashes of what he could be. But mayhap the virtually intriguing candidate for the starting chore is freshman Kasim Hill, who has impressed Durkin thus far in camp.

"Kasim'southward doing swell," Durkin said of the former iv-star recruit. "He doesn't look like a freshman. He's very mature, how he approaches meetings, and really everything he does has been great."

The current freshmen class is Durkin'southward first full recruiting course, so it'll exist interesting to watch how many of them affect the field in year one. It wouldn't be a stupor if Hill was one of the starting time ones to do so.