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BREAKING: Texas DB Chris Adimora commits to SMU

On3 imageby:Billy Embody•05/06/22•

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Texas Longhorn DB Chris Adimora sets up for a play during game against TCU on October 3, 2020. (Photo by John Rivera/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

SMU landed another transfer when former Texas defensive back Chris Adimora committed to the Mustangs, he announced. He has three years of eligibility remaining to play two seasons.

Adimora played in 23 games and made 10 starts while with the Longhorns. In 2021, he recorded 10 tackles, two pass breakups and a half-sack in eight games. For his career, he’s logged 61 tackles, two tackles for loss, a half-sack, an interception and seven pass breakups.

SMU safeties coach Craig Naivar coached and recruited Adimora to Texas. Now at SMU, Adimora will join a safety group that needs improvement from its 2021 season. With Scott Symons’ defense, Naivar said this year that it’ll be a multiple look.

“In college football today, you’ve got to be multiple on defense because of what you see with space and tempo and use of formations and all the things that are now legal in college football that weren’t legal 10 years ago. Linemen downfield… that type of deal,” Naivar joked. “So being able to go from a four down to a three down front to put speed on the field and do that, they’re all very similar in that regard. Looking at what we’re going to do, what Scott’s bringing here, is very similar to what I’ve been accustomed to and been around at previous stops.”

Adimora, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound defensive back, was a four-star recruit out of Long Beach, Calif. According to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies, he was the No. 161 overall prospect in the nation, No. 18 safety prospect in the nation and No. 20 prospect in California.

Chris Adimora figures to be one of many new additions for SMU

With the portal, Rhett Lashlee’s staff can address needs across the roster. The Mustangs will have to be creative, but there will be numerous new players on the roster come the 2022 season.

“Your roster is always a little depleted in the spring because you had your seniors and other people leave and you haven’t brought all your new people in,” Lashlee said after SMU’s Spring Game. “Whether it’s the 12 freshmen we’ve got that will show up June 1 or any transfers that we have coming in, there will be an influx of a lot of new faces and they need those guys to show them the way so they’re not way behind in August.”

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