NC State lands a pair of FSU transfers in Cyrus Fagan and Cory Durden

The N.C. State football team got an addition to its secondary thanks to a familiar conference foe. Hours later, the team got a new defensive tackle from the same school.

Former Florida State defensive back Cyrus Fagan posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon that he will be finishing out his career in Raleigh with the Wolfpack. Fagan played one game with the Seminoles this season before entering the transfer portal. Shortly after Fagan’s announcement, one of his former teammates at Florida State, defensive tackle Cory Durden, also announced he was transferring to N.C. State.

The 6-foot-1, 195-pound safety played in 24 games with FSU since enrolling in 2017. He has 72 career tackles and one interception.

Coming out of Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Fagan was a four-star prospect, according to 247Sports, and the No. 18 player in Florida. He was the No. 13 safety in the country.

Fagan will be joining an N.C. State secondary where every player should be expected to return in 2021. There were no seniors in the secondary on the two-deep in 2020, a group led by junior nickel Tyler Baker-Williams and safety Tanner Ingle. Two underclassmen, cornerback Malik Dunlap and nickel Taiyon Palmer, both sophomores, announced they were transferring from N.C. State within the last two weeks.

Durden (6-3, 315) played in three games this season before putting his name in the transfer portal. He played in 26 games in three seasons for the Seminoles, finishing with 68 tackles and 7.5 sacks.

Late Monday night, two N.C. State players announced they were entering the transfer portal. Redshirt freshman quarterback Ty Evans and redshirt sophomore linebacker C.J. Hart both announced via social media that they were transferring. Evans, who hails from Colorado Springs, did not take a snap this season. Hart, a native of Fort Lauderdale, Fl., had 19 tackles in 10 games this season.

This story was originally published December 14, 2020 at 5:44 PM.