Transfer Portal By The Numbers

[kalm]

From a buddy who’s in data analytics.

Day 1 Portal Madness...

A total of 532 FBS scholarship players put their name in the NCAA transfer portal on Monday. That’s a 16 percent increase from last year’s opening day of portal activity. But that group of players — 304 from Power 5 programs, 228 from the Group of 5 — doesn’t come close to measuring the magnitude on Monday.

Because there were also nearly 100 walk-ons who entered the portal. And there were a whopping 421 players from FCS schools who also opted to transfer. Last year, the FCS transfer window opened two weeks earlier than the FBS window. This gave college football coaches more time to evaluate those lower-level players before the more coveted transfers hit the market. This year? The portal opened on the same day for both subdivisions.

Add up every college football player who appeared in the transfer portal over the course of Monday, and you get a grand total of 1,127. That represents a 44 percent increase from the previous record-setting day of 780 entries on Dec. 5, 2022.

In the next few days, the number of FBS scholarship players available in the transfer portal will surpass 1,000. How packed is the transfer portal after all of Monday’s entries? Here’s a breakdown of the 901 uncommitted scholarship players by position:

Quarterbacks: 85
Running backs: 78
Wide receivers: 149
Tight ends: 51
Offensive linemen: 136
Defensive linemen: 104
Linebackers: 100
Defensive backs: 174
Specialists: 24

Eleven FBS programs lost double-digit scholarship players to the portal on Monday. South Carolina led the way with 15 players moving on after a 5-7 season, though only three of them started games this season. NC State, Vanderbilt and Western Michigan all lost 14 on the day, and Cincinnati was right behind them at 13.

[dal4018]

There is a story about MARVIN HARRISON JR after his former teammate Kyle McCord left Ohio State via the transfer portal the person who wrote the story about him doing this as well.