UNLV QB enters portal

30 Apr 2024, 00:00

The transfer portal has become college football's own free agency. The Athletic will keep you up to date on all the news around the transfer portal this spring as teams look to round out their rosters for the 2023 season.

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May 30, 2023 at 10:43 AM EDT College football transfer portal live tracker: Spring portal moves and latest news

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UNLV QB Harrison Bailey has re-entered the portal as a grad transfer, The Athletic has learned.

Bailey played in six games last season after transferring in from Tennessee. Former top-100 recruit.

Ohio State kicker enters portal

Seibert made 16 extra points and 1-of-2 field goals in 2020.

Cincinnati LB Jaheim Thomas enters the transfer portal

Bearcats LB Jaheim Thomas is entering the transfer portal. Significant loss for Cincinnati.

Penn State OL Jimmy Christ entering transfer portal

Offensive lineman Jimmy Christ is Penn State's first transfer portal entrant during the April window. Christ, a reserve offensive lineman for the Nittany Lions, repped at right and left tackle with the third-string offensive line during Saturday's spring game. He was a three-star recruit in the Class of 2020.

Wrapping up Day 1 of the transfer portal window

Final count for the day: 90 FBS scholarship players entered the NCAA transfer portal on Saturday, the first day of the 15-day spring transfer window.

One of the biggest names to hit the portal is already off the market. San Diego State transfer safety Patrick McMorris, a two-time first-team All-Mountain West selection and the No. 2 player in our best available rankings, announced his commitment to Cal on Saturday night. His older brother, Malik McMorris, played for the Bears and joined their staff as a GA this offseason.

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Georgia DL Bear Alexander enters transfer portal

Notre Dame WR retires

Wide receiver Kaleb Smith, who transferred into Notre Dame from Virginia Tech this winter, announced his retirement from football Saturday.

Wyoming's starting RG to the portal

Wyoming offensive lineman Emmanuel Pregnon has entered the transfer portal, The Athletic has learned. The Cowboys' starting right guard graded out as the No. 3 guard in the Mountain West last season, per Pro Football Focus.

App State OL Troy Everett has entered the transfer portal

Starting center was a second-team Freshman All-American in 2022.

TCU WR Blair Conwright has entered the portal as a grad transfer

Conwright has 39 career catches for 552 yards and 3 TDs.

Colorado CB Nikko Reed enters transfer portal

Reed started all 12 games last season and had 34 tackles, 7 PBUs and 2 INTs.

What to expect from Michigan in the spring transfer portal window

With spring practice in the rearview mirror, Michigan players and coaches had two weeks to assess their options before the transfer portal opened for business.

The current transfer window, which started Saturday and runs through April 30, offers a chance for players and programs to adjust to information that emerged during the spring. If programs didn’t find the answers they wanted at a particular position, this is the time to scour the portal one last time for a veteran player who can compete in preseason camp. If players aren’t happy with their position on the depth chart, this is a chance to look around for a better situation.

By my count, Michigan had 78 players on its spring roster who received scholarship offers as transfers or high school recruits, plus several former walk-ons. The Wolverines have another 16 players who signed in the Class of 2023 and are scheduled to arrive in the summer. No matter how you do the math, Michigan has more talented players than available jobs. The Wolverines also have a position or two that could benefit from the addition of a veteran player if the right fit emerges.

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BYU adds a Utah State LB

BYU lands a commitment from Utah State transfer LB AJ Vongphachanh. Three-year starter for the Aggies.

Wisconsin took three transfer QBs. Who will be the backup?

Phil Longo, Wisconsin’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, figures it’s pretty straightforward. The more his quarterbacks understand how to implement his scheme, the more opportunities they will earn in practice.

That helps to explain why Mississippi State transfer Braedyn Locke has firmly established himself as Wisconsin’s No. 2 quarterback behind starter Tanner Mordecai this spring and why Oklahoma transfer Nick Evers is still searching for consistent snaps in a three-man battle for the third-string job. Locke and Evers both arrived this offseason as redshirt freshmen in what figured to be a fascinating battle to become Wisconsin’s future at quarterback, given that Mordecai will be a sixth-year senior. So far, Locke has surged while Evers has endured growing pains.

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Kaleb Smith’s transfer to Notre Dame is a ‘full circle’ ending to his career

Kaleb Smith made this kind of stay-or-go decision before, it’s just that the last time he paid for the privilege.

Six years ago, Smith was a high school baseball prospect whose season-ending shoulder injury altered everything about the football steps that would take him to college. As a junior at Patrick Henry High School, Smith knew the shoulder injury suffered in baseball that spring meant there would be no senior football season that fall.

And that left Smith with a difficult choice.

He could either stick it out at Patrick Henry, sit out the football season and play baseball again that spring before heading to college. Or he could transfer to Louisa County High School, which had the academic setup to let Smith graduate early and head to college that winter. At the time, Smith, a wide receiver, was committed to Wake Forest in the same recruiting class as Sam Hartman. The two planned to room together.

Five things I'll be watching when the portal opens

When the first 45-day transfer period closed on Jan. 18, more than 1,500 FBS scholarship players had entered the transfer portal in this 2022-23 cycle. Since then, fewer than 100 players have entered as graduate transfers. Transfer recruiting cooled off considerably during the spring, just as coaches had hoped. But for the next 15 days, starting on Saturday, college football players are once again free to move about the country.

From the quarterback market to the Group of 5 risers, here are five things to watch when the portal reopens from April 15 to 30 for another wave of transfers.

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How Michigan's portal additions fit

Not so long ago, Michigan was stuck on the wrong side of the transfer portal turnstile.

The Wolverines had 18 scholarship players or contributing walk-ons who entered the portal between August 2020 and July 2021. Outside of a few timely graduate transfers like Olu Oluwatimi and Mike Danna, Michigan wasn’t adding significantly from the portal to offset the attrition.

All of that flipped in the most recent cycle. Michigan’s portal losses were minimal, with quarterback Cade McNamara and tight end Erick All as the most notable departures. On the other side of the ledger, the Wolverines fortified their roster with seven transfers, several of whom could contend for starting jobs in the fall.

So what changed? Was it a shift in strategy? A more flexible admissions process? Or is it, as coach Jim Harbaugh contends, a matter of Michigan emerging as an attractive destination for transfers?

UNLV QB enters portal - The Athletic

The transfer portal has become college football's own free agency. The Athletic will keep you up to date on all the news around the transfer portal this spring as teams look to round out their rosters for the 2023 season.

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