Former North Carolina Defensive Back DeAndre Boykins to Transfer to Oklahoma State

TRANSFER PORTAL TRACKER

The portal rolls on, and the Cowboys grab a defensive back from the ACC.

Former North Carolina safety DeAndre Boykins is set to sign with Oklahoma State, according to multiple reports. Listed at 6-foot, 200 pounds, Boykins made 78 tackles, six tackles for loss, two sacks, an interception and eight pass breakups in 37 games with the Tar Heels.

Boykins started all 14 of North Carolina’s games during the 2022 season, a year in which the Tar Heels went 9-5 under Mack Brown. That season Boykins made 67 tackles, six tackles for loss, two sacks and grabbed a pick.

He then missed the 2023 season with a knee injury before playing in 11 games this past season, where he made six tackles and had a pass breakup.

Boykins seems like a good locker room guy. After UNC’s season-opening win against South Carolina in that 2023 season that Boykins missed, Brown had a teammate get Boykins on FaceTime so they could virtually award him the game ball.

Family 🤞

DeAndre Boykins received a (virtual) game ball this past weekend 🐏#CarolinaFootball 🏈 #UNCommon pic.twitter.com/N1MoOa0PBo

— Carolina Football (@UNCFootball) September 5, 2023

Boykins played in 11 games as a true freshman in 2021, finishing the year with five tackles.

He was a four-star recruit in the 2021 class. The 247Sports Composite ranking listed him as the No. 181 prospect in the country and the No. 6 athlete in the class. He played on defense and at running back for Central Cabarrus High School in Concord, North Carolina. He chose the Tar Heels over reported offers from Clemson, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Missouri, Michigan, Arkansas, Auburn and others.

Boykins is the latest addition in what has been a busy portal offseason for the Cowboys (and a lot of other teams around the country). OSU continues to bolster its defense this spring with the additions of edge rushers Wendell Gregory (South Carolina) and Taje McCoy (Colorado), defensive tackle De’Marion Thomas (Vanderbilt), and linebacker Darius Thomas (Western Kentucky).

The first defensive back OSU has added this spring, Boykins joins the likes of JK Johnson (LSU), Mordecai McDaniel (Charlotte), Jaylin Davies (UCLA), Chase Pinkston (Jones College), Carrington Pierce (Chaffey College) and Jeremy Cook (East Mississippi) who have transferred to Stillwater this offseason.