A wayward college football soul has seemingly found a new home courtesy of Lane Kiffin‘s FAU football program.
Thanks to a heads up from an alert reader, we have been made aware that former Pittsburgh defensive lineman Jeremiah Taleni is now listed on the Owls’ official online roster. An email sent to the university requesting confirmation and the details surrounding Taleni’s addition to the roster has yet to be met with a response.
It’s believed that Taleni is coming into Kiffin’s program as a graduate transfer, thus making him eligible to play immediately for the Owls in 2017. The upcoming season would be the lineman’s final season of eligibility.
The development comes a little over three months after Taleni was dismissed from Pat Narduzzi‘s program. The only explanation given for the punitive measure at the time it was announced was that it was disciplinary in nature.
His first two seasons, Taleni played in eight games with no starts as a reserve tackle. Last season, he started three of the seven games in which he played; those three starts came in the final three games of the regular season, setting the stage for what would’ve been an even bigger role at Pitt prior to his dismissal.