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DB Andre Turrentine (transfer to Tennessee)

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Those were the games where he would run for 200 yards and put up 40 points on the board by himself. The first time he ever touched the ball in a game, he ran for a touchdown. The second season he ever played, he remembers being the only kid on his team who scored.

Those, as they say, were the days.

“Oh my God, yes. I remember that,” Turrentine says, flashing a big grin harkening back to those years as his mom, Jajuan, pulls out her phone to show YouTube highlights of Andre in a big ole No. 79 blue-and-white jersey as he torpedoes up the right sideline for a touchdown.

“Here you go! Here you go! Here you go!” Jajuan yells. “They ain’t touch him! They ain’t touch him! They ain’t touch him!”

“You didn’t think about what was gonna happen if you lose,” Turrentine says. “You were just out there to have fun. It wasn’t, ‘Oh, what are people gonna say when I go back to school?’ Who’s gonna walk up to me and be like, ‘What happened?’ There was no pressure. I’m with my family and my friends, out there just playing. That all went by so fast.”
 
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Freshman Safety Andre Turrentine Could End Up Anywhere In Secondary

Current Situation
As a non-early enrollee, Andre Turrentine is a little bit behind many of his classmates who chose to enroll in the winter. It’s not the end of the world for him, but given the issues in the secondary last year, the Ohio State coaching staff would have preferred to have as many freshman defensive backs participate in spring ball as possible. That would have also allowed them to get an idea of where they want to put Turrentine — and it would have also given them a chance to see what he can handle. Predicting where he will end up this year is a guess, but the process of elimination may yield some answers. The Buckeyes brought in three corners and three safeties. Safety Jantzen Dunn spent the spring at free safety. Safety Jaylen Johnson is a “late-enrollee” as well, but has been projected to a Bullet or linebacker spot. That leaves Turrentine as a cover safety candidate, which could be right up his alley.

What’s the Ceiling This Year?
The Buckeyes went through spring ball with six healthy safeties — three at free, and three at cover. Because of that, Andre Turrentine is going to have to work his way through a crowded depth chart in order to see time on defense this year. Special teams is definitely an option for an eager tackler like him, but he’s going to be fourth at best at whichever safety spot he starts at. Free safety may be a bit thinner due to youth an inexperience with Josh Proctor leading redshirt sophomore Bryson Shaw and true freshman Jantzen Dunn. Cover safety has fifth-year senior Marcus Williamson and sophomore Lathan Ransom, who both played last year, as well as redshirt freshman Cameron Martinez, who had a strong spring. Turrentine may end up floating back and forth until he finds his eventual position. That will slow down his ceiling, but only for a time.

Entire article: https://buckeyescoop.com/safety-andre-turrentine-anywhere-ohio-state-buckeyes/
 
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“You have to figure out: do I have one guy at that position? Then do I have two? And then if I have three, then now I can rotate guys,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said earlier this spring. “But we’re not just going to do that. It’s not Little League where everybody gets to play. We have to do it because guys deserve it. They’re putting in the work to do that.”

Andre Turrentine wasn’t going to be in that mix this fall. After just one year with the Buckeyes program, Turrentine is looking to make an impact elsewhere. He entered the transfer portal with the intention of doing just that.



A four-star recruit in the class of 2021, Turrentine redshirted last season after playing in just four games as a true freshman, but was among the standouts of the spring game, in which he played the most snaps of any Buckeye (106) and recorded nine tackles with a pass breakup.

That said, Turrentine was still unlikely to be on the two-deep at safety, with Josh Proctor and Kourt Williams set to lead the depth chart at bandit (the position Turrentine played in the spring game) alongside Ronnie Hickman and Kye Stokes at adjuster and Tanner McCalister and Cameron Martinez at nickel safety.

Just sayin': I guess you can't blame him for just wanting to play. He did look like he had potential (i.e. in the Spring game) so you could say "wait one more year and see what happens"; however, everyone except Tanner McAlister would have (at least) another year of eligibility. There are guys like Kye Stokes and Sonny Styles (who are both true Freshmen) likely to be ahead of him too. I wish him the best of luck at his next school.

In other news:

Ohio State has seen some expected turnover on its roster this spring, as the Buckeyes entered spring football with more than 90 players on scholarship, far exceeding the NCAA-mandated 85-man limit. With Andre Turrentine entering the transfer portal Monday, OSU is now has exactly 85 scholarship players on its roster.
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