Chance Purvis

East Carolina redshirt senior defensive end Chance Purvis was arrested on Tuesday on multiple felonies, Pitt County records show.

Purvis, 22, was charged with second degree kidnapping, and breaking/entering with intent to terrorize or injure. Both are felony charges. Purvis was booked on a $10,000 bond. He's been suspended indefinitely from all East Carolina football team activities.

"We are aware of the situation concerning Chance Purvis and consider these charges as very serious and completely unacceptable," ECU head coach Mike Houston said in a statement. "Chance has been suspended from all football-related activities until further notice. We will continue to monitor the situation, but since this is a legal matter, any additional comment on our part would be inappropriate at this time.”

Purvis is the second key ECU player to get arrested on a felony charge this semester. Offensive lineman Cortez Herrin was charged in January with intent to sell/distribute marijuana. Herrin was suspended from all team activities shortly after the charge. Redshirt sophomore defensive end Dorian Hardy was also charged earlier this year for failure to appear in court on a misdemeanor level.

A native of Meridian, Miss., Purvis is the lone returning starting defensive lineman for the Pirates. Purvis has played in 22 games the last two seasons. He started all 12 games at defensive end in 2020, racking up 51 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, and four sacks. Purvis has totaled 68 tackles and 15.5 tackles for loss over the course of his career.

Purvis was recruited by former defensive line coach Deke Adams under Scottie Montgomery's staff as part of the 2016 recruiting class. A three-star recruit coming out of high school, Purvis was rated the 115th-best outside linebacker nationally for the 2016 class, and the 40th-best player in Mississippi. Purvis redshirted in 2016 and didn't play as a redshirt freshman in 2017 before seeing the field for the initial time as a redshirt sophomore in 2018.

ECU, which has eight scholarship defensive linemen committed as part of the 2020 class, lost starting defensive end Kendall Futrell, and starting defensive tackles Alex Turner and Jalen Price to graduation.

The Pirates open spring practice on March 17.