Maryland senior safety Denzel Conyers, who suffered a torn ACL in his right knee during the Terps' game at Central Florida in September 2016, was elated last spring when he found out he was awarded a sixth year of eligibility, but his return hasn't gone as smoothly as planned.
Conyers has dealt with what he said "definitely hasn't been a straightforward recovery." And he's had to watch two of his friends develop into playmaking safeties for the Terps.
But Conyers, who made his season debut during a blowout win against Towson Sept. 9 and has played sparingly since, is now ready to take on a bigger role in the defensive back rotation, defensive coordinator Andy Buh said. The process of recovering from a torn ACL wasn't foreign to Conyers: he suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in high school, and that experience helped him during the past year.
