Deion Sanders seems to keep throwing some subtle shade at the Tennessee Vols because of Boo Carter
Former Tennessee Volunteers defensive back Boo Carter transferred to Colorado earlier this offseason to play for Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders. Carter was dismissed from Tennessee’s football team last season.
Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders seems to be throwing some subtle shade at the Tennessee Vols this offseason.
Sanders hasn’t named Tennessee directly — one of Coach Prime’s rules is to not talk about your previous school — but he’s hinted a couple of times that Boo Carter, who transferred to Colorado earlier this offseason, should’ve been playing cornerback instead of the STAR/slot corner role he played at UT.
Carter joined the Buffaloes this offseason after getting dismissed from Tennessee’s football team last November.
“Boo is going to play corner,” said Sanders on Thee Pregame Show. “That’s what I see. That’s what I want right now, because I think he deserves it. I don’t see them call too many slots in the first round, and that guy deserves to be that kind of guy. So, we’re gonna put him in that light, and he’s gonna shine.”
That’s the second time that Sanders has made comments suggesting that Carter “deserves” to play cornerback.
“I put him at corner the last two weeks because I want to see him do his thing,” said Sanders in April. “I wanted to see him play there because in history, I don’t see them say ‘at slot, chosen in the first round, such and such.’ I don’t see that. … He can do many things and I want him to do all those things that he’s capable of doing so that his draft wealth accelerates. He’s that kind of kid.”
Tennessee, for what it’s worth, has had high-level NFL talent at cornerback the last couple of seasons.
I mean, it’s not like Carter was going to play over Jermod McCoy and Rickey Gibson as a true freshman in 2024.
And Carter wasn’t exactly “locked in” during his nine games with the Vols last season, so there was no way Tennessee’s defensive staff was going to put him at outside cornerback when they barely trusted him to play in general (Carter’s snap count significantly decreased as the season progressed).
Carter may excel at playing cornerback for the Buffaloes in 2026, we’ll just have to see how he performs. But to suggest he deserves it after basically quitting on his teammates last season seems like quite a leap by Sanders.