2022 Football Roster
Jersey Number 5
Dre Butler
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- DT
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 300
- Prev School:
- Newton HS (Auburn)
- Hometown:
- Covington, Ga.
2022 (Sr.):
- Mid-year enrollee who joined the team for Spring 2022 workouts
Previous Schools:
- Transferred to Liberty from Auburn
- Played in 13 career games at Auburn during the 2020 and 2021 seasons
- Recorded 20 tackles (seven solo, 13 assisted), 2.0 tackles for a loss (nine yards) and 1.0 sacks (six yards)
- Got his first start against Northwestern in the 2020 Citrus Bowl
- Transferred to Auburn from Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas
- 247Sports.com rated him as the No. 7 nationally prospect at the JUCO level
- ESPN JC Top 50
- 66 tackles, 22.0 TFL, 11.5 sacks at Independence
- Helped the Pirates won the KJCCC title
- Two-time conference defensive player of the week
- Second team all-KJCCC
Prep:
- Graduated from Newton High School in Newton, Ga.
- Four-star recruit as ranked by 247Sports.com out of high school
- Recording 50 tackles, 20 TFL, eight sacks as a senior
- First team Region 8-7A
- Also a basketball standout
- Personal:
- Son of Ruby Turner and Eric Bulter
- Interdisciplinary studies major
- Birthday is April 15
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