Alabama DB Brylan Lanier Transfers to Indiana

Indiana head coach Tom Allen added depth to the defensive again room on Friday, touchdown Brylan Lanier from Alabama. Lanier spent his first collegiate season in 2021 below Nick Saban as a most well-liked walk-on.

Lanier, a Tuscaloosa, Ala. native, was a three-star recruit out of Paul W. Bryant Excessive Faculty. Standing at 6-foot-1 and 170 kilos, he was the No. 1142 participant and No. 99 cornerback within the class of 2021. Lanier initially dedicated to Georgia State, however shortly entered the switch portal and returned house to Tuscaloosa. 

Lanier didn’t see any sport motion for the Crimson Tide in 2021. Within the 2022 Golden Flake A-Day soccer sport at Bryant-Denny Stadium on April 16, Lanier was certainly one of seven gamers to earn the Bear Bryant Excellent Non-Scholarship Award.

Lanier joins an Indiana defensive again room with high-level expertise and expertise on the prime. Senior Tiawan Mullen is the chief of the group, and was a first-team All-American as a sophomore in 2020. Jaylin Williams, who has been an All-Massive Ten choice the final two seasons, will doubtless play reverse Mullen on the cornerback place. Like Williams, security Devon Matthews is again for his fifth season with the Hoosiers and was named Indiana’s Most Excellent Defensive Participant of the 12 months in 2021.

Due to the gamers Indiana returns within the defensive backfield, Lanier has a tough path to enjoying time in his first season at Indiana, however he’ll carry depth to a place group that suffered a large number of accidents in 2021.

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