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The deadline for undergraduate players to enter the transfer portal in the spring window has passed. There are still players wrapping up the process of finding a new home, but the cycle has reached its conclusion for the most part. Coming out of the weekend, every one of the top 250 prospects in the 2024-25 Transfer Portal Player Rankings at 247Sports has either committed to or enrolled at their new school. So now it’s time to make some declarative statements on the most notable and impactful changes coming from all the player movement.
As has been detailed extensively, the spring portal window produced large numbers of players — but in terms of top portal talent, most of those moves came out of the winter window. Of the top 200 players in the portal across both windows, just 24 of them made their moves in the spring; the rest committed in the winter and most were able to take part in spring practice with their new squad. But having a little bit of a lighter load in terms of top talent does not mean schools checked out of the process. We’ve got notable additions or losses across the board with national title favorites, new coaching hires, and even the most stable programs in the country all engaged in the last weeks of roster construction.
What we have done here is identify some of the most notable or important moves from the spring window, taking into account the players and teams involved and the wider-ranging impact when applicable. That’s certainly the case with our first pick, which is really two moves in one, when the top-rated player in the portal left a College Football Playoff team in the midst of a sign-of-the-times NIL negotiation.
The Tennessee-UCLA Quarterback Swap
Throughout spring, there was little to suggest that…
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Author : Chip Patterson
Publish date : 2025-05-05 17:47:00
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