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Colorado's Demouy Kennedy officially enters transfer portal

Deion Sanders will have to replace the Alabama transfer going into next season
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Oct 7, 2023; Tempe, Arizona, USA; Colorado Buffaloes linebacker Demouy Kennedy (22) against the
Oct 7, 2023; Tempe, Arizona, USA; Colorado Buffaloes linebacker Demouy Kennedy (22) against the | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

Demouy Kennedy has officially entered the transfer portal on Wednesday. The Alabama transfer appeared in 10 games for the Buffaloes last season, recording 13 tackles (two for loss) in his only season in Boulder.

Kennedy was reportedly no longer with the program last month and was waiting for the transfer portal window to re-open. The former Crimson Tide standout played three seasons for Nick Saban at Alabama. He suffered a torn ACL during the 2022 season. When Charles Kelly decided to migrate with Coach Prime to Boulder, Kennedy was one of the first to follow. The four-star transfer was on campus a month after the famed "Louis Luggage" speech.

Colorado will now have Trevor Woods and LaVonta Bentley in a two-linebacker set. FAU transfer Jaylen Wester will also be part of the rotation, along with FSU transfer Brendan Gant.

The decision from Kennedy means 15 Colorado players have entered the transfer portal since Monday, including Chamon Metayer, Alton McCaskill and Cormani McClain. It also leaves Deion Sanders and his staff needing to make up ground, as they're now negative five in the portal for the year. This comes a week before CU's Black and Gold Spring Game at Folsom Field on April 27.

Kennedy will have one year of eligibility remaining at his next stop.

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JOSH TOLLE

Josh Tolle is a writer covering college sports for On SI. Outside of storytelling, the multi-talented broadcaster has play-by-play experience at the professional and collegiate levels. In 2018, he began calling games for the National Women’s Soccer League. He has also called games for the United Soccer League, Concacaf, and the U.S. Open Cup. He has called hockey for the Premier Hockey Federation for the past three seasons and was the play-by-play voice for the Superior RoughRiders of the Western Hockey League. He has provided play-by-play for various other sports including football, basketball, baseball and volleyball events. Since 2015, Tolle has been the voice of Colorado School of Mines Athletics having called football, men's and women's basketball and soccer. He previously wrote for SB Nation.

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