Maryland’s Trey Edmunds, Stefon Diggs scored NFL touchdowns on Sunday

A couple Maryland football alums found their way into NFL end zones on Sunday. The only member of Maryland’s 2016-17 campaign to secure a NFL contract secured the first touchdown of his professional career, while hometown kid Stefon Diggs was back in the area to add another score to his season total.

Late in the New Orleans Saints’ 47-10 shellacking of Buffalo, former Terps running back Trey Edmunds found a lane along the sideline and torched the defense for the score. It was the last of the Saints’ franchise-record six touchdowns on the day.

Edmunds came in the fourth quarter to spell backs Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram, who both finished with 100 yards, and added a score to a game that was already out of hand. Edmunds finished the day with nine touches for 48 yards, with 41 of those coming on that touchdown run.

Elsewhere in the NFL, Diggs also had a day for himself against the hometown Washington team. He was back in the DMV area as Case Keenum came in and threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns. Minnesota (7-2) grabbed its fifth straight win.

Diggs was the recipient of four catches on five targets for 78 yards and a touchdown. His longest catch of the day came after he beat Washington corner Josh Norman for a 51-yard completion.

Diggs beat Norman by a pretty healthy margin, and was just a couple yards from a touchdown. Latavius Murray would punch it in a couple plays later, but Diggs would find the end zone before the end of this one.

Later in the first half, Diggs gave the Vikings the lead on a three-yard touchdown reception. The score was nice, but his celebration was better. Diggs did his best Antonio Brown impersonation, flying the plane before hugging the goalpost.

Though the NFL is making efforts to be *slightly* more fun, the No Fun League flagged your favorite Terp for using the post as a prop.

In other news

Basketball season is underway! Both the men’s and women’s teams started off on the right note on Friday, as the men opened with a road win over Stony Brook and the women blew out Albany at the Xfinity Center.

We started to get familiar with the Terps after their season-opening win, and, after blowing out UMES in Sunday’s home-opener, we learned a little more about this Maryland squad.

Maryland beat Duke in field hockey to advance to the Final Four. A win over Duke is always nice, but a playoff win over the Blue Devils is that much sweeter.

In other Maryland sports news, football got shell-shocked by Michigan at home on Saturday, as the Terps started their fourth different quarterback.

In the middle of the football game, Mark Turgeon’s top remaining 2018 target Keldon Johnson committed to Kentucky.

Saturday was rough for Terps everywhere, as volleyball got swept by Penn State, the No. 1 team in the nation.

Women’s basketball will look to use its tough schedule as a measuring stick of where the Terps rank among the elite. Guard Ieshia Small will be key to their success, and the former top-20 recruit has had a long journey to get here.

Another college football head coaching job is open after Butch Jones got fired from Tennessee. Rocky Top Talk put together a list of potential replacements; there’s no DJ Durkin.

Last week, three UCLA players landed in hot water right before the season opened in China. LiAngelo Ball is one of the three who are still overseas awaiting their fate, and Matt Ellentuck took a look at exactly what’s happening.