As the bus carrying the Maryland football team pulled into Northwestern’s Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois, before Saturday night’s season opener between the Big Ten rivals, Jeshaun Jones, who missed all of last season because of a torn ACL in his left knee, was overcome by emotion.
“I was like, ‘Wow, I’m here. I waited a year.’ I started crying a little bit,” the redshirt sophomore wide receiver said Monday. “It was a lot. Then I got on the field, and I called my mom [Nicole Baren], and I told her, ‘I’m here.’ She made it to the game, and it was great to have her there.