Texas Tech football all decade team: The secondary

Corner: Tre’ Porter

Another player that Texas Tech fans probably didn’t appreciate as fully as we should have was Tre’ Porter.  The Oklahoma product had a solid career with 206 tackles, two interceptions, two forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries from 2010-13.

Interestingly, he bookended his career with a pair of 76-tackle seasons, his career-high.  In between, he was slowed by injuries but he was still one of the better corners in the last decade to wear the Scarlet and Black.

At 6-foot, 205-pounds, he was a bigger corner in an era when the Red Raiders seemed to be stuck with an army of corners below 5-foot-10.  Though he didn’t have the typical top-end speed that one might want in an elite corner, he was physical enough to battle bigger receivers on the outside and he was often the corner Tech left on an island to give help to the other side of the field.

Porter was another player who moved from corner to safety during his career but given how well Davis and Johnson manned the safety spot, Porter would best fit on the all-decade team as a corner.  And had concussions not been such an issue for him, he would have had an even better career statistically.

A highly-rated 3-star prospect in 2010, he was the No. 47 corner in the nation when he signed with Tech.  And though he’s not going to be on any all-time list of the greatest Red Raiders, he was a solid corner at a time when that was a rarity for this program.