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Position | Cornerback |
Class | Senior |
Major | Communication Studies |
Personal information | |
Born: | Virginia Beach, Virginia | April 8, 2002
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
Career history | |
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High school | Princess Anne (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
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Tony Grimes (born April 8, 2002) is an American football cornerback for the Purdue Boilermakers. He had played for three seasons at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before transferring to Texas A&M after the 2022 season.
Grimes attended Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was selected to the Under Armour All-America Game. A five-star recruit, he committed to North Carolina to play college football, [1] [2] and reclassified from the class of 2021 to 2020. [3]
As a true freshman at North Carolina in 2020, Grimes started four of 12 games, recording 14 tackles, one interception and one sack. [4] [5] As a sophomore in 2021, he started all 13 games and had 47 tackles. [6]
After the 2022 season, he entered the NCAA transfer portal and committed to Texas A&M, which had recently lost four cornerbacks to the transfer portal, for the 2023 season. [7]
On January 1, 2024, Grimes announced that he would be entering the transfer portal for the second time. [8] On January 7, he announced that he would be transferring to Michigan State. [9] However on January 14, he announced that he would flip his commitment to UNLV after an admissions issue with Michigan State. [10]
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