It’s not been a good past few days for Maryland’s pass-catching Jacobs brothers.
Friday, Levern Jacobs was suspended for the entire 2014 season for violating the school’s code of student conduct. Two days later, head coach Randy Edsall announced that Taivon Jacobs (pictured, No. 12) has been lost to a season-ending knee injury. The specific nature of the injury wasn’t detailed.
Jacobs suffered the injury on the second drive of the Terps’ season-opening win against James Madison Saturday.
As a true freshman in 2013, Jacobs took a redshirt as a torn ACL suffered during his senior year in high school limited his availability. Jacobs, who was one of three starting Terp receivers, didn’t record a catch prior to going down with the injury.
The loss of the Jacobs brothers continues an attrition trend at the position over the past year. In 2013, both of Maryland’s top receivers, Stefon Diggs and Deon Long, went down with season-ending injuries in the same mid-October game. Shortly before the start of summer camp this year, Nigel King, the team’s third-leading receiver last year, left the football team and ultimately landed at Kansas earlier this month.