When Western Michigan safety Bricen Garner entered the transfer portal after graduating from Pittsburgh in December of 2019, he had no idea where he would end up or which schools were going to contact him.
As time passed, current Pittsburgh safeties coach Cory Sanders-who coached Garner and spent time at WMU in 2017 as the program’s defensive backs coach, told Garner the Broncos were interested.
“He still had some connections down there, and he let me know they were interested in me,” Garner said. “I got on the phone with the (WMU) coaches and it was genuine, they weren’t feeding me nothing I didn’t want to hear, they were just talking football.