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Jordan Smith is first UAB player selected in NFL draft since 2015
Updated May 01, 2021;
For the first time since the program was reinstated six years, and making its re-debut four seasons ago, the UAB football program has a player selected in the NFL Draft.
Former UAB outside linebacker Jordan Smith was taken in the fourth round by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the 121st overall pick.
Smith is the 15th player from UAB to be drafted and becomes the first selected since wide receiver J.J. Nelson and tight end Kennard Backman were taken in the fifth and sixth rounds of the 2015 draft.
‘Sufficient enough’: Jacob Fuqua spurns extra year; awaits NFL Draft
Updated 12:51 PM;
Jacob Fuqua is a busy man these days.
Outside of a full-time teaching gig and finalizing plans for a wedding, the former UAB long snapper has logged hour upon hour at the UAB Football Operations Complex in preparation for this week’s NFL Draft.
Fuqua, a four-year starter for the Blazers, leaves as the most decorated long-snapper in program history. He was an All-C-USA first-team selection this past season, a member of the C-USA All-Academic Team and finished his career without a single botched snap, along with seven tackles, a forced fumble and two fumble recoveries.
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The Rodney Terry era at UTEP is over after three seasons. The Miners head coach took a position at the University of Texas as an assistant coach to work under new head coach Chris Beard, as first reported by 24/7 Sports Chip Brown on Tuesday.
Rumors started to spill late last week on Terry’s move to Texas, but the chatter was hushed over the Easter weekend. The news was released Tuesday.
The dominos started to fall as soon as word of Beard s hiring at Texas went public. On Thursday, UT Arlington head coach Chris Ogden took a job as an assistant coach under Beard. Texas Tech assistant coach Ulric Maligi is joining Beard at Texas too, Pete Thames of Yahoo Sports reported. The rumors that Terry would be leaving UTEP for Austin started to heat up on social media Thursday afternoon, but they cooled off Friday morning. A source close to the situation told 600 ESPN El Paso that Terry met with UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter on Friday for lunch, but no news was made public afte