Tennessee football defensive back Warren Burrell has entered the transfer portal.
Redshirt senior defensive back Warren Burrell entered the transfer portal as a graduate transfer on Thursday afternoon, GoVols247 has learned. Burrell is the first Vol to enter the transfer portal. The window for FBS players to enters opens on Monday, but graduate transfers can enter at any time.
Burrell’s best season as a Vol came in 2021 as one of the two starting cornerbacks before missing the majority of the 2022 season with an upper body injury that resulted in a medical redshirt.
Burrell played in 41 games at Tennessee with 22 starts, all at cornerback, and has one year of eligibility remaining. He accumulated 91 total tackles, 10 pass breakups, 3.0 tackles for a loss, one interception and a fumble recovery in five seasons on Rocky Top.
The 6-foot, 190-pound defensive back played in 10 games this past season. Burrell made eight tackles, had a pass deflection, recorded a sack, recovered a fumble and made his first-career interception to stop a fourth quarter drive in Tennessee’s win over UTSA
Burrell received a medical redshirt after playing in just two games in 2022 due to a season-ending shoulder injury. He started each of UT’s first two games at corner in wins over Ball State and No. 17 Pitt, making four tackles in the overtime win at Pittsburgh. He tied for the team lead with a career-high tying eight tackles while also posting a pass breakup in UT’s season-opening win over Ball State.
The Suwanee, Georgia native started all 12 games he played in at corner in 2021 while setting career-highs in tackles (41), tackles for a loss (2.0) and passes defended (7). It followed a sophomore season in 2020 that saw him tally 17 tackles and one pass breakup in four starts across eight games. Burrell started the first four games of his freshman season in 2019 and went on to play in nine games.
Burrell signed with the Vols out of North Gwinnett High School where he was a 2018 Georgia Preseason Class 7A All-State selection and unanimous Georgia Class 7A All-State selection in 2017. He also earned all-county honors as a senior in 2018 following a junior season in which he had 61 tackles, seven interceptions, 11 pass breakups and two blocked kicks to lead North Gwinnett to a 14-1 record and the Georgia Class 7A State Championship as a junior in 2017.