Former Michigan defensive back Sammy Faustin enters the transfer portal
Michigan football defensive back Sammy Faustin officially entered his name in the transfer portal on Thursday afternoon. He was not with the team during the 2021 season due to medical reasons.
Despite not playing during last year’s campaign, Faustin remained in school on medical aid.
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He was a three-star prospect and the no. 534 player in the 2018 recruiting class, per the On3 Consensus rankings. Faustin was the 89th-rated player in the state of Florida and 43rd-best safety in the class. He committed to Michigan on Aug. 2, 2017, and was primarily recruited by former assistants Don Brown and Brian Smith.
Other teams that offered Faustin out of high school included Appalachian State, Arizona, East Carolina, Florida International, Georgia Southern, Iowa State, Kentucky, Maryland, NC State, Purdue, UCF, USF, Virginia and Western Kentucky.
The defensive back, who switched from safety to cornerback, never found much of a role in Ann Arbor. Faustin did not see game action in 2018, taking a redshirt. He appeared in nine games during the 2019 season and one in 2020. The vast majority of his snaps were played on special teams.
Faustin has at least two more seasons of eligibility remaining at his next destination. The potential also exists to seek a medical redshirt for sitting out the 2021 season.
Faustin is the seventh former Wolverine to enter the transfer portal since the end of the 2021 season. Linebacker Anthony Solomon (Arizona), cornerbacks Darion Green-Warren (Nevada), Andre Seldon (New Mexico State) and George Johnson (UMass), quarterback Dan Villari and offensive lineman Chuck Filiaga (Minnesota) are among the departing Michigan football players. The Wolverines have added a transfer in former Virginia center Olusegun Oluwatimi, a Rimington Award semifinalist who is projected to start at center in 2022.
