COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Spurred by a bevy of the area's top players, along with key additions from around the nation, the University of Maryland football team has signed a top-35 recruiting class for the second consecutive year.

Head coach Randy Edsall announced the signing of 22 student-athletes for the 2013 season, 19 of whom signed national letters-of-intent, Wednesday afternoon. Three signees enrolled in classes at the university for the spring semester.

The class includes 13 defensive players and nine on the offensive side, while 14 of the players hail from the Maryland/Washington, D.C. area. The Terps landed a five-star recruit for the second consecutive year and have six incoming players labeled as four-star recruits.

"Overall I'm very thrilled and excited because we were able to go out and meet the needs that we needed to in this year's class," said head coach Randy Edsall. "I'm also very proud that we closed strong, getting three young men on signing day, and they're local kids."

For the second straight year, Maryland landed the Gatorade Player of the Year in Washington, D.C. in Yannick Ngakoue. A linebacker from Friendship Collegiate Academy, Ngakoue played in the Under Armour All-America game and is a Parade All-American.

Deon Long, a five-star wide receiver who spent last season at Iowa Western Community College, strengthens an already impressive receiving corps. The Terps also added a pair of local wideouts in four-star receiver Taivon Jacobs of Suitland High School and DeAndre Lane of Catonsville Senior High School.

Jacquille Veii, a highly-touted defensive back from The Avalon School in Gaithersburg, Md., was one of the three players to pledge their commitment to Maryland on signing day, joining Jacobs and Ngakoue.

According to 247Sports.com, four of the top seven players in D.C. are headed to Maryland, including Under Armour All-America offensive lineman Derwin Gray (No. 1), and linebackers Cavon Walker (No. 6) and Jermaine Carter, Jr. (No. 7). The aforementioned Ngakoue is the third-ranked player in D.C.

Both 247Sports.com and Rivals.com rank Maryland's class as the 30th-best in the nation. Rivals also has Maryland's class as the fifth-best in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

"I'm just very proud of the coaching staff for the work and effort they've put in to getting this done," said Edsall. "Then I'm also just very happy for all these young men that we've signed because they see what we're doing, what we're building, and they wanted to be a part of something special."

In addition to Gray, Jacobs and Ngakoue, the Terps added three more four-star recruits in quarterback Shane Cockerille, tight end Andrew Isaacs and defensive back William Likely. Cockerille, a dual-threat quarterback from The Gilman School, was a finalist of ESPN's Elite 11, a camp which ranks the top prep quarterbacks in the nation. Cockerille also represented the U-19 USA Team in the International Bowl on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

Likely, an all-state player Belle Glade, Fla., is one of three early enrollees, joining Long and offensive lineman Silvano Altamirano, who spent the past two seasons at San Diego Mesa College.

A talented group of incoming linebackers also includes Jalen Brooks, one of two recruits from the state of Georgia, and Derrick Hayward of Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Md.

Milan Collins of Bishop McNamara High School in La Plata, Md., Elvis Dennah of Annapolis Area Christian School in Annapolis, and Jarrett Ross, the lone Delaware signee, round out a group of five defensive backs.

The Terps also added three strong defensive linemen, going into Florida to get Bozeman High School product Chandler Burkett and Mandarin High School's Kingsley Opara, as well as Malik Jones, who won two state titles at Paul L. Dunbar High School in Baltimore.

Maryland also has two quality additions along the offensive line in JaJuan Dulaney of McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Ga., and Moise Larose of Wilde Lake High School in Odenton, Md.

2013 University of Maryland Football Recruiting Class Breakdown

BY STATE

MARYLAND/D.C. (14)
• Jermaine Carter Jr.
• Shane Cockerille
• Milan Collins
• Elvis Dennah
• Derwin Gray
• Derrick Hayward
• Taivon Jacobs
• Malik Jones
• DeAndre Lane
• Moise Larose
• Deon Long
• Yannick Ngakoue
• Jacquille Veii
• Cavon Walker

FLORIDA (3)
• Chandler Burkett
• William Likley
• Kingsley Opara

GEORGIA (2)
• Jalen Brooks
• JaJuan Dulaney

CALIFORNIA (1)
• Silvano Altamirano

CONNECTICUT (1)
• Andrew Isaacs

DELAWARE (1)
• Jarrett Ross

INDIVIDUAL HONORS

FIVE-STAR RECRUITS (1)
• Deon Long (Rivals)

FOUR-STAR RECRUITS (6)
• Shane Cockerille (ESPN.com)
• Derwin Gray (ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)
• Andrew Isaacs (Rivals)
• Taivon Jacobs (ESPN.com)
• William Likely (ESPN.com, Rivals)
• Yannick Ngakoue (247Sports, Rivals)

THREE-STAR RECRUITS (14)
• Silvano Altamirano (ESPN.com)
• Jalen Brooks (247Sports, ESPN.com, Rivals)
• Chandler Burkett (Scout.com)
• Jermaine Carter Jr. (247Sports, Rivals)
• Milan Collins (247Sports, ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)
• Elvis Dennah (ESPN.com)
• JuJuan Dulaney (247Sports, ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)
• Derrick Hayward (247Sports, ESPN.com, Scout.com)
• Malik Jones (247Sports)
• Moise Larose (247Sports, ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)
• Kingsley Opara (247Sports, ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)
• Jarrett Ross (247Sports, ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)
• Jaquille Veii (ESPN.com)
• Cavon Walker (247Sports, ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)

UNDER ARMOUR ALL-AMERICANS (2)
• Derwin Gray (ESPN.com, Rivals, Scout.com)
• Yannick Ngakoue (247Sports, Rivals)

PARADE ALL-AMERICANS
• Yannick Ngakoue

ALL-STATE HONOREES (12)
• Chandler Burkett (Fla.)
• Shane Cockerille (Md.)
• Elvis Dennah (Md.)
• JuJuan Dulaney (Ga.)
• Derrick Hayward (Md.)
• Andrew Isaacs (Conn.)
• Taivon Jacobs (Md.)
• Malik Jones (Md.)
• Moise Larose (Md.)
• William Likely (Fla.)
• Jarrett Ross (Del.)
• Jacquille Veii (Md.)

TEAM RANKINGS
• 247Sports.com (30)
• Rivals.com (30)
• Scout.com (42)

BY POSITION

OFFENSE (9)

Quarterback (1)
• Shane Cockerille

Wide Receiver (3)
• Taivon Jacobs
• DeAndre Lane
• Deon Long

Offensive Linemen (4)
• Silvano Altamirano
• JuJuan Dulaney
• Derwin Gray
• Moise Larose

Tight End (1)
• Andrew Isaacs

DEFENSE (13)

Defensive Linemen (3)
• Chandler Burkett
• Malik Jones
• Kingsley Opara

Linebacker (5)
• Jalen Brooks
• Jermaine Carter Jr.
• Derrick Hayward
• Yannick Ngakoue
• Cavon Walker

Defensive Backs (5)
• Milan Collins
• Elvis Dennah
• William Likely
• Jarrett Ross
• Jacquille Veii