Sevyn Banks is following in Joe Burrow’s footsteps.
Like Burrow in 2018, Banks is transferring from Ohio State to LSU and on Tuesday announced he will be joining the Tigers for his final season of collegiate eligibility.
What is done in the dark will come to light, forever love, buckeye, it’s within me, separate from me, what God has for me is greater than anything else #GeauxTiger @SteepDiesel @iRecruitDaBoot @LSUfootball @LSU @LSUsports pic.twitter.com/i02uKb1vVh
— Smoove (@BanksNiko) April 19, 2022
Banks will begin attending LSU after the spring semester, according to an official school release.
A starter in all eight Ohio State games in 2020, Banks was plagued by a hip injury in his final season as a Buckeye. After originally planning to enter the 2022 NFL draft before eventually deciding to play college football for another year, Banks entered the transfer portal in February.
While Banks likely would have been a backup at Ohio State in 2022, with Denzel Burke and Cameron Brown at the top of the depth chart and Jordan Hancock and Jakailin Johnson emerging behind them, he has a chance to contend for a starting job at LSU, which lost his top four cornerbacks — Derek Stingley Jr., Cordale Flott, Eli Ricks and Dwight McGlothern — from last season. Banks is the fourth transfer cornerback to join LSU this offseason after Mekhi Garner (Louisiana), Jarrick Bernard-Converse (Oklahoma State) and Greg Brooks (Arkansas).