Boo Carter spent part of Saturday night watching the Colorado men’s basketball team play at the CU Events Center.
The former Tennessee defensive back is going to have a lot more chances to see games at the Events Center in the coming months. On Saturday night, Carter announced that he has committed to the CU football team and head coach Deion Sanders.
Carter, who has two seasons of eligibility remaining, is rated by 247Sports as the sixth-best defensive back in the transfer portal.
A 5-foot-11, 195-pound safety, Carter spent two seasons at Tennessee. He was a four-star recruit coming out of high school in 2024 and had scholarship 46 offers, including from CU. He took two visits to CU in 2023 before signing with Tennessee.
Once considered one of the top young defensive backs in the SEC, Carter had a tumultuous 2025 and was dismissed from the team in November, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.
The News Sentinel reported that Carter missed several team workouts during the offseason leading up to the 2025 season and had to meet multiple requirements set forth by head coach Josh Heupel to remain on the team. He played in the first nine games, but in a reserve role. He was not with the team for a Nov. 15 game against New Mexico State, and announced Nov. 16 he was putting his name into the transfer portal.
Off the field issues aside, there is no question about Carter’s talent.
As a true freshman with the Volunteers in 2024, he made the SEC’s All-Freshman team, starting the last five games of the season at the Star position. He was sixth on the team in tackles (38), while adding three tackles for loss, one sack and an interception. He also led the SEC in punt return average (16.5 yards per return, 12 for 198).
In nine games this past season, he posted 25 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, one sack, three pass breakups and three forced fumbles. He also averaged 13.2 yards on punt returns (11 for 145), including a career-long 40-yarder.
Carter is the second transfer addition for the Buffs at safety, joining Naeten Mitchell of New Mexico State. Overall, CU has now landed 27 transfer commits this offseason, all of them in the past week.
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