The Athletic had an interesting summary of this year's college football transfer portal (the portal new year started yesterday, FWIW), and here were some of the key metrics from the past 12 months:
* There were 2,069 scholarship portal entries in FBS football over the past year, representing a 25% increase from the prior year. Nearly half (1,054) were from the Power 5 programs. The average per P5 program was 16.
* A total of 1,946 players remained in the portal and did not return to the school from which they announced their transfer.
* Of those 1,054 players, 88% committed to play elsewhere. 34% transferred to a Group of 5 program, 32% went to another P5 program, 17% to an FCS school, and 4% to a lower division program.
* Maryland lost more players than any other P5 program: 28. Baylor lost only five.
* There are still 127 P5 players who have not signed with another program.
* Defensive backs were the position most likely to transfer from an FBS program--a whopping 410 of them.
* There are 110 players who were graduate transfers who remain uncommitted. Many of them are likely done with football.
https://theathletic.com/3466826/2022/08 ... ed_article
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Re: Premium: The Athletic's summary of this year's college football transfer portal
This is not official or from The Athletic's article, but...
Vandy's final numbers from the 2021-22 portal cycle are...
18 players lost, 6 players gained.
The portal hit Vandy hard... players who could have been captains and team leaders like OT Tyler Steen, S Dashaun Jerkins, DL Rashaan Wilkins, DL Lorenza Surgers, WR Cam Johnson, and WR Amir Abdur-Rahman all departed. SIX of those 18 who departed were defensive linemen, and that's devastating.
It should be noted however that nine or ten of the 18 departures were graduate transfers, guys who collected their Vanderbilt degrees before departing. At Vanderbilt, both for the school and for the students, it's all about matriculating and collecting that undergraduate degree, and those who make it are worthy of honor no matter what they decide to do next. Vanderbilt definitely has outstanding graduate programs, but the athletics department has little control over whether its graduates can get into them or not. It seems to me this is something at which the school as a whole could do better: helping steer graduating student-athletes into programs that would allow them to spend that fifth year at Vandy and stay with the football program, if they want to. For whatever reasons, about ten of them decided not to do so this past year.
Vandy's final numbers from the 2021-22 portal cycle are...
18 players lost, 6 players gained.
The portal hit Vandy hard... players who could have been captains and team leaders like OT Tyler Steen, S Dashaun Jerkins, DL Rashaan Wilkins, DL Lorenza Surgers, WR Cam Johnson, and WR Amir Abdur-Rahman all departed. SIX of those 18 who departed were defensive linemen, and that's devastating.
It should be noted however that nine or ten of the 18 departures were graduate transfers, guys who collected their Vanderbilt degrees before departing. At Vanderbilt, both for the school and for the students, it's all about matriculating and collecting that undergraduate degree, and those who make it are worthy of honor no matter what they decide to do next. Vanderbilt definitely has outstanding graduate programs, but the athletics department has little control over whether its graduates can get into them or not. It seems to me this is something at which the school as a whole could do better: helping steer graduating student-athletes into programs that would allow them to spend that fifth year at Vandy and stay with the football program, if they want to. For whatever reasons, about ten of them decided not to do so this past year.