Former Connecticut safety Tyler Coyle has transferred to Purdue, the player announced on Twitter on Friday.
A Windsor, Conn., native, Coyle was a multi-year starter for Randy Edsall‘s team. He appeared in 35 career games as a safety, registering 260 tackles with 7.5 TFLs, three interceptions, 18 passes defended, two forced fumbles and two recoveries.
He signed with Connecticut when Bob Diaco was the club’s head coach and Anthony Poindexter the defensive coordinator and safeties coach; he redshirted the 2016 season, and Diaco and company were fired thereafter. As fate would have it, Poindexter found work as the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach starting in 2017, and Diaco came aboard the Boilermaker train as defensive coordinator earlier this year.
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— TC (@_CoyleEra01) April 18, 2020
Coyle was one of two dozen Huskies to leave Storrs this cyle.
