Big Ten football player entering transfer portal due to school's COVID vaccine requirement
A college football player says he is transferring because of his school’s COVID vaccine requirement.
Rutgers University defensive back Peyton Powell tweeted Tuesday that the school’s mandatory COVID vaccine policy left him with “no other choice” but to enter the transfer portal. In a follow-up tweet, Powell corrected the name of the school.
The University of Rutgers has made the COVID vaccine mandatory to attend school and play football, therefore I have no other choice but to enter my name into the transfer portal.
— Peyton Powell (@PPowell_) August 24, 2021
In March, Rutgers announced that it would require all students to be vaccinated before arriving on campus in the fall. At the start of fall camp in early August, Rutgers coach Greg Schiano told reporters that Powell was “not a member of the program.”
Powell is familiar with the transfer portal. He enrolled at Baylor in January 2019 but signed with Rutgers as a transfer on Dec. 18, 2019. Powell did not see the field in 2019 or 2020.
