Syracuse Football: Defense takes hit with Allen Stritzinger in transfer portal
By Neil Adler
Allen Stritzinger is at least the third defensive player for Syracuse football to enter the transfer portal in recent weeks.
Syracuse football is seeing another player, defensive back Allen Stritzinger, arrive at the transfer portal, although he does have the option to return to the Hill if he doesn’t like the other possible destinations out there for him.
CuseNation.com’s Mike McAllister first reported this news, which Stritzinger then confirmed via his Twitter page. Although Stritzinger is a reserve safety, per his bio on cuse.com, his potential departure from Central New York would decrease the Orange’s depth on defense.
The 6-foot, 194-pound Stritzinger, who is entering his senior campaign, has competed in 29 games, with one start, over three seasons.
Stritzinger, after spending his freshman stint at running back, switched to defense in 2018. In 20 contests over the past two stanzas on the defensive side, he has registered 27 tackles (14 solo) and four passes defended, including one interception.
As McAllister noted, Stritzinger’s lone pick came in the team’s 2018 Camping World Bowl victory versus West Virginia, which pushed SU to 10-3 and a final No. 15 ranking in the major polls.
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A three-star prospect prior to coming on board at Syracuse during the 2017 recruiting cycle, Stritzinger attended De La Salle Collegiate High School in Warren, Mich.
The 247Sports Web site and Rivals.com said that he possessed about 10 scholarship offers, including from Michigan, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Kent State and Western Michigan.
Overall in the 2017 class, the 247Sports Composite placed him as the No. 839 prospect, as well as the No. 62 safety and the No. 19 player in the state of Michigan. Meanwhile, 247Sports rated him as the No. 49 safety across his class, as well as the No. 18 guy in the state of Michigan.
Syracuse football DB Allen Stritzinger joins Juan Wallace Jr. and Kadeem Trotter in entering the transfer portal.
New Orange defensive coordinator Tony White is installing his 3-3-5 system, and the novel coronavirus pandemic curbed spring football practices. That may have affected Stritzinger’s ability to display his talents and make a formidable impression on White, as McAllister appropriately points out.
McAllister says that when the ‘Cuse released its spring depth chart, that chart listed Stritzinger as the back-up at the “rover” position to Eric Coley, a redshirt junior defensive back.
On June 5, Syracuse junior reserve linebacker Juan Wallace Jr. said on Twitter that he is transferring to Kent State. Another reserve linebacker, redshirt junior Kadeem Trotter, revealed on May 26 that he has entered his name into the transfer portal.