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Former WVU Safety Jayvon Thrift Chooses Transfer Destination

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Former WVU Safety Jayvon Thrift Chooses Transfer Destination
Former WVU Safety Jayvon Thrift Chooses Transfer Destination

Last month, West Virginia walk-on safety Jayvon Thrift announced that he would be entering his name into the transfer portal. Monday afternoon, he made the announcement of his new home, Youngstown State - a school he's very familiar with.

Thrift had a lot of interest from a few Power Five schools when he was being recruited out of Norwin High School in Pittsburgh. He held offers from Indiana, Pitt, and Syracuse along with several other offers from Group of Five schools. However, Thrift surprised some folks by committing to Youngstown State in October of 2018. He decommitted just a couple of months later and walked on at WVU.

Thrift was redshirted in 2019 and did not see any game action in 2020.

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Schuyler Callihan is the publisher of West Virginia On SI and has been a trusted source covering the Mountaineers since 2016. He is the host of Between The Eers, The Walk Thru Game Day Show, and In the Gun Podcast. The Wheeling, WV native moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2020 to cover the Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Panthers.

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