Former Houston DL announces he’ll play for ECU

by | Dec 19, 2024

A two-year University of Houston football team member has announced he’s now a Pirate.

Justin Benton made the post to X on Thursday morning. He entered the transfer portal earlier this month and recently visited Greenville about playing for ECU.

The 6-foot-1, 300-pounder was a redshirt freshman at Houston, where he had four tackles, three of them solo, in two games in the 2023 season.

He’s the second player in two days from Houston to announce he’ll play at ECU. Tegan Wilk, a former ECU football player who entered the transfer portal at the end of the 2023 season and went to Houston, is coming back to Greenville.

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