6'4" 299 Auburn DT in transfer portal still available
This headline shows he entered the portal in early May:
His Auburn bio lists him as a DE but he played at DT.
He missed almost all of his freshman season from injury, but still played in the 2 Deep DT rotation in January against Northwestern in the Citrus Bowl. So his reason for entering the transfer portal is not due to being buried deep in the depth chart and not getting playing time. The reason being given is Auburn making defensive coaching changes. The DC and DL coaches were both replaced.
He had a very impressive offer sheet coming out of high school. Michigan did offer him.
Making the 2 Deep rotation in the SEC as a freshman speaks well of abilities. If Michigan is still looking to add to the DT room, this would make a seemingly excellent addition--if he can be landed.
Also, if landed, would he have to sit out a year? Could a case be made that a coaching change is enough of a reason to waive the one year wait?
I forgot to put this in the post: he was a 4 Star and the #101 prospect in the 2020 class.
He didn't play in the spring game at all. Rumors are that he wasn't attending team meetings and Harsin wasn't going to put up with that.
Tennessee finished second in his recruitment and he can likely start there immediately pending eligibility, so they are the early portal favorites.
If he isn't a grad transfer, forget about it.
McDonalds bags, transfer credits, big men who don't like snow, can't play school, didn't want him anyway, already got our man, not 365 lbs+...
I mean, it's probably unlikely that a guy from Tennessee who didn't visit UM, doesn't seem to have a recruiter listed on 247 and even if he did would be coming to a defensive staff completely different than the one that recruited him last year, was never mentioned in a single recruitment round-up here on this site, and has expressed no real interest in UM is unlikely to transfer to UM, a school that makes it incredibly hard anyway for non-grad transfers to transfer.
Other than that, our chances are good, right?
Yeah, I mean I fully expect Harbaugh to close on him and in the rare event he doesn't I fully expect the usual suspects around here to rail against Harbaugh's inadequacies and question the toxicity of the team.
This is my exact thought of the transfer portal after hearing all of the horror stories about credits.
I feel Michigan should somehow specialize in grad transfers and call it a day.
The SEC has an intra-conference transfer rule, which states that undergraduates must sit a year. While the NCAA has already waived its rule which forced 1-time undergraduate transfers to sit a year, the SEC’s rule for intra-conference transfers still remains. For now.
According to The Athletic’s Aaron Suttles, SEC presidents will vote on the intra-conference transfer rule on June 3.
I assume there's ways to get around it though, given that Henry the Tennessee linebacker chose to transfer to Alabama.
A lot of folks took that specific event as evidence that Darth Saban already has the votes to eliminate the year sit out rule (and knows this and passed it along to Henry).
Cheers.
It seems the 1 year transfer wait is headed out of college football, across the board.
This is a player that has options. There's uncertainty at Tennessee. So I'm thinking he has better options. Theres a long list of places he can go. Honestly I'm not expecting him to pick Michigan.
hardLy a chance he'll consider Michigan, imo. I think ...maybe...possibly...we would have heard if he was interested by now.
If he’d gain another pound and become 300 then maybe. At 299 he’s too small.
Lost a pound when he didn’t get to keep the McDonald’s bag of cash
300 metric pounds or bust!
From Tennessee, Tennessee was a big factor in his recruitment, seems like he would stay south
But the Vols are a mess right now.
There's not enough food in SE Michigan for Whittley and Hardy
Ha, i’m totally picturing that AD budget office has factored “don brown left” with a “x1.3” in a giant excel tracking food costs.
Then let's pass the hat and get a semi of food backed up to his dorm after he gets here.
Call coach and tell him!
Judging by his offers out of high school, UM Admissions won't be a problem.
Nope, most of his credits will probably not transfer. Next!
So I’m pretty sure this guy got injured his senior year of high school because of a cheap shot from TE Oscar Delp who we’re recruiting in 2021. If I had to guess I would say he ends up at UCF with Malzahn or Tennessee.