Alabama linebacker Shane Lee transferring out west

Alabama Crimson Tide linebacker Shane Lee is transferring to USC, the school announced on Sunday night. He is just the latest addition for new head coach Lincoln Riley, who has been working the transfer portal since being hired by the Trojans.

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Lee was a starting linebacker for Alabama during the 2019 season after Dylan Moses went down with a season-ending injury. However, he fell down the depth chart in the following years to Moses in 2020 and then Tennessee transfer Henry To’o To’o this past year.

The linebacker finished his career in Tuscaloosa with 96 tackles and eight tackles for a loss. Lee played in 29 games under defensive coordinator Pete Golding and will now make the switch to Alex Grinch.

According to the On3 transfer rankings, Lee was the No. 7 ranked linebacker to go through the portal this cycle. Overall, he was the No. 76 overall transfer at the fourth top 100 transfer for USC.

Lee was a four-star prospect according to the On3 Consensus coming out of St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, MD. He was the No. 9 linebacker of the 2019 recruiting class and No. 68 overall. USC did not offer Lee during his high school recruitment.

Grinch will now be adding a linebacker that has starting experience in the SEC. Falling down the depth chart is nothing to be ashamed of at Alabama and coming into a program such as USC will have Lee come in as an impact player.

Shane Lee second SEC linebacker to commit to USC

Lincoln Riley has once again landed a highly-coveted player in the NCAA Transfer Portal, as former Auburn Tigers linebacker Romello Height announced on Saturday that he will be transferring to USC.

Height posted a video on Twitter with clips from former USC linebackers such as Brian Cushing, with a video at the end of him in USC gear standing in front of the LA Memorial Coliseum.

Height arrived at Auburn in 2020, appearing in just one game against LSU in the COVID-impacted season. In 2021, Height appeared in eight games but was hardly a top EDGE for Auburn’s defense. He finished the season with 18 tackles (six solo stops) in Bryan Harsin’s first year as Auburn’s head coach.

Height was a coveted NCAA Transfer Portal prospect despite not contributing too much at Auburn, and that was in large part due to his status as a recruit.

A 6-foot-3, 214-pound linebacker from Dublin, Georgia, White was a four-star recruit out of Dublin High School via the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.