The recoil proton polarization was measured in the d( e, e ′ p )n reaction in Hall A of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab). The electron kinematics were centered on the quasielastic peak (xBj ≈ 1) and included three values of the squared four-momentum transfer, Q 2 =0.43, 1.00 and 1.61 (GeV/c) 2 . For Q 2 =0.43 and 1.61 (GeV/c) 2 , the missing momentum, pm, was centered at zero while for Q 2 =1.00 (GeV/c) 2 two values of pm were chosen: 0 and 174 MeV/c. At low pm, the Q 2 dependence of the longitudinal polarization, P ′ z , is not well described by a state-of-the-art calculation. Further, at higher pm, a 3.5σ discrepancy was observed in the transverse polarization, P ′x . Understanding the origin of these discrepancies is important in order to confidently extract the neutron electric form factor from the analogous d( e, e ′ n )p experiment.