BYU football: Cornerback Isaiah Herron announces he’ll stay with Cougar program instead of transferring to an HBCU

Defensive back Isaiah Herron announced on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, he will stay at BYU, less than one week after a report he had entered the transfer portal. | Madeline Mortensen, BYU Photo

PROVO — Less than a week after a report surfaced that BYU’s Isaiah Herron had entered the transfer portal, the promising sophomore cornerback announced on Instagram Wednesday that he will return to BYU.

Herron explained that due to the current climate in America surrounding racial injustice, he felt a desire to attend a historically Black college to help combat these injustices.

“With a little more time to think I have made the decision to stay here at BYU. I realized I can have an impact in this state by opening eyes here and help other African Americans in Utah because of the small amount of diversity that’s here. I’m looking forward to using my opportunities here to make a positive impact,” Herron wrote.

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I want to start off by saying thank you to all the Historically black colleges and universities willing to give me an opportunity after I put my name in the transfer portal. I also want to thank BYU, from the entire football staff to the president. I want to make it clear that my intentions to leave were not because of BYU. This place has been nothing but great to me by providing opportunities and relationships that I’m grateful to have. The reason I wanted to leave was due to the current climate in America in regards to racial injustice and the killing of unarmed black men and women. I felt a historically black college was the best place that I could help tackle these injustices because of the culture and locations of the schools. With a little more time to think I have made the decision to stay here at BYU. I realized I can have an impact in this state by opening eyes here and help other African Americans in Utah because of the small amount of diversity that’s here. I’m looking forward to using my opportunities here to make a positive impact.

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