BALTIMORE, Maryland -- Morgan State football coach Lee Hull likens Andrew King favorably to former Terp and current San Francisco 49er Torrey Smith, and it's not just because they're both wide receivers.Like Smith, King is committed to making contributions off the field. Smith was nominated the Ravens' representative for the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year award last December for his self-named foundation beginning a reading initiative, giving 447 students in Baltimore-area schools access to more than 700 books and electronic readers, as well as a place to read them.
King, a redshirt senior who led the Bears in catches (42), receiving yards (508) and receiving touchdowns (six), helped the team capture a share of its first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title in 35 years last season and a berth in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. He has visited area elementary schools to talk to students about the lives of student-athletes.
King, a Columbia (Maryland) native who graduated from Atholton High School, also joined an effort organized by Hull to clean streets in neighborhoods close to Morgan State's campus and has volunteered at the program's youth football camp the past two summers.
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