Penn State football DT Judge Culpepper enters transfer portal, per report
Penn State redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Judge Culpepper has entered the transfer portal, according to Rivals.
Culpepper, a former three-star recruit in the Class of 2018, according to 247Sports, appeared in all 13 games in 2019 (primarily on special teams) and in all nine games for the Nittany Lions this season.
As a reserve, the 6-foot-3, 291-pound Tampa, Florida, native finished the 2020 season with five tackles and 0.5 sacks.
Culpepper arrived at Penn State with fellow defensive tackles junior P.J. Mustipher and redshirt sophomore Aeneas Hawkins. At the position, the Nittany Lions will also lose redshirt senior Antonio Shelton to the transfer portal, and redshirt junior Fred Hansard and Mustipher have yet to make decisions on whether they will enter the NFL Draft or return for another season.
Culpepper and Shelton mark the second and third Penn State players to enter the transfer portal, after redshirt sophomore safety Trent Gordon — also a former three-star recruit in the 2018 class — entered the portal last month.
Because of an NCAA blanket eligibility waiver officially passed this month due to the “great uncertainty amidst the COVID-19 pandemic,” transfer athletes in all Division I sports will be immediately eligible at their new institutions instead of having to sit out one season like under usual circumstances.
For his career, Culpepper recorded seven tackles and one sack in 22 games played.
This story was originally published December 23, 2020 at 1:39 PM.
