College football transfer portal superlatives: Alabama, Michigan among teams in focus as spring window opens

College football’s spring transfer portal window is just days away from its Tuesday, April 16, opening. That window, the first for undergraduate players entering the portal since January, will run through April 30, and it projects to be a chaotic period on the college football calendar.

More than 1,000 FBS players transferred during the spring window last year, and the movement this cycle could be even more robust thanks to a NCAA rule change that allows undergraduate players to transfer multiple times in their career without a year-in-residence penalty.

Throw in more transfer-needy teams than usual — a late-moving 2023 coaching cycle will have a spillover effect on the spring window — and it’s a recipe for potentially seismic movement.

But why wait for that movement to happen when it’s easy to project the future? Let’s go ahead and hand out some pre-portal superlatives and foreshadow what will be the most notable storylines from the spring window. 

Team that could define the cycle

Alabama: We already saw a preview of this, right? There hasn’t been a more notable piece of roster news this spring than True Freshman All-American offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor reneging on his Iowa enrollment with the intention of re-entering the transfer portal and ending up back at Alabama. That type of addition would be a mic-drop moment for most teams. But it will likely be one of several splashes for the Crimson Tide. 

Alabama’s roster is still loaded, but there are some legitimate holes across the two-deep because of losses the team suffered in the wake of Nick Saban’s retirement. The Tide lost 24 scholarship players to power-conference schools in the winter window and added only eight. They’ve got a lot of room to operate, and sources across the…

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Author : Chris Hummer

Publish date : 2024-04-12 14:46:57

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