Rutgers snags 4-star UNC DB transfer Patrice Rene thanks to longstanding ties with Scarlet Knights
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
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The Scarlet Knights have added more length, speed and depth to its defensive secondary in Patrice Rene a six-two-and-a-half, 200-pound graduate transfer from UNC. A four-star recruit coming out of
Episcocpal high (Alexandria, Va.) in 2016, Rene has longstanding ties to Rutgers linebackers coach Bob Fraser, who helped forge a reunion of sorts.
Rene was committed to Rutgers and ex-head coach Kyle Flood in 2015 before decommitting when Flood was fired. He had originally picked Rutgers over Ohio State, Wisconsin, Cal, Oklahoma, Penn State, Nebraska, Tennessee, Virginia Tech and other Power Five schools, becoming the nineteenth member, and third defensive back, to join Rutgers’ 2016 class.