Off-season Composite Roster Moves

[WasianCU]

This off-season should see a little less movement than the past 2 but I still expect to see plenty of transfers in and out. I'll be updating this post to just track team moves but discussion can still be kept in their appropriate threads:

Recruiting Updates
Transfer Updates

Spoiler: Incoming Transfers

Position	Player	247 Transfer Rating	Previous School
TE	Zach Atkins	3* - 85 grade	NW Missouri St
K	Buck Buchanan	unrated	LA Tech
LB	Reginald Hughes	unrated	Jacksonville St
DL	Gavriel Lightfoot	3* - 86 grade	Fresno St
IOL	Carter Miller	3* - 88 grade	ULM
DL	Jahiem Oatis	4* - 93 grade	Alabama
QB	Kaidon Salter	3* - 89 grade	Liberty
CB	Makari Vickers	3* - 87 grade	Oklahoma

Spoiler: Outgoing Transfers

Position	Player	247 Transfer Rating	New School
LB	Jeremiah Brown	unrated	Returned to Colorado
DL	Rayyan Buell	unrated
LB	Johnny Chaney Jr.	unrated
Edge	Dayon Hayes	3* - 89 grade
LB	Nikhai Hill-Green	4* - 90 grade
OL	Tyler Johnson	unrated
OL	Payton Kirkland	unrated
WR	Jordan Onovughe	unrated
TE	Morgan Pearson	unrated
CB	Nahmier Robinson	unrated
WR	Cordale Russell	unrated
QB	Walter Taylor	unrated
QB	Destin Wade	unrated
IOL	Yakiri Walker	unrated
WR	Asaad Waseem	unrated
LB	Trevor Woods	unrated

Spoiler: Outgoing Non-Transfers

Position	Player	Notes
LB	Vonta Bentley	Eligibility
DL	Shane Cokes	Eligibility
LB	Brendan Gant	Eligibility
DE	BJ Green II	Eligibility
CB	Preston Hodge	Eligibility
WR	Jimmy Horn Jr.	Eligibility
OL	Wyatt Hummel	Eligibility
CB/WR	Travis Hunter
DB	Travis Jay	Eligibility
OL	Justin Mayers	Eligibility
DL	Chidozie Nwankwo	Eligibility
QB	Shedeur Sanders	Eligibility
S	Shilo Sanders	Eligibility
S	Cam'Ron Silmon-Craig	Eligibility
WR	Will Sheppard	Eligibility
S	Herman Smith III	Eligibility
OL	Cardale Thomas	Eligibility
WR	LaJohntay Wester	Eligibility
P	Mark Vassett	Eligibility

 

[WasianCU]

Spoiler: HS and JC Recruits

Position	Name	Composite	Notes
S	Antonio Branch Jr.	3* - 0.8894	Signed
TE	Zayne DeSouza	3* - 0.8356	Signed
WR	Quannell X Farrakhan Jr.	4* - 0.9019	Signed
OT	Jay Gardenhire	3* - 0.8383	Signed
WR	Quentin Gibson	3* - 0.8769	Signed
OG	Chauncey Gooden	4* - 0.9015	Signed
DT	Christian Hudson	3* - 0.8885	Signed
TE	Corbin Laisure	3* - 0.8572	Signed
QB	Julian Lewis	5* - 0.9959	Signed
DL	Alexander McPherson	3* - 0.8631	Signed
WDE	London Meritt	4* - 0.9500	Signed
OT	Carde Smith	4* - 0.9128	Signed
ILB	Mantrez Walker	4* - 0.8932	Signed
WR	Adrian Wilson	4* - 0.9075	Signed

 

[Da Lama]

Spoiler: HS and JC Recruits

Position	Name	Composite	Notes
S	Antonio Branch Jr.	3* - 0.8894	Verbal
TE	Zayne DeSouza	3* - 0.8356	Verbal
WR	Quannell X Farrakhan Jr.	4* - 0.9019	Verbal
OT	Jay Gardenhire	3* - 0.8383	Verbal
WR	Quentin Gibson	3* - 0.8650	Verbal
CB	Alex Graham	4* - 0.9534	Verbal
OG	Chauncey Gooden	4* - 0.9015	Verbal
DT	Christian Hudson	3* - 0.8885	Verbal
TE	Corbin Laisure	3* - 0.8572	Verbal
QB	Julian Lewis	5* - 0.9959	Verbal
DL	Alexander McPherson	3* - 0.8631	Verbal
WDE	London Meritt	4* - 0.9500	Verbal
OT	Carde Smith	4* - 0.9128	Verbal
ILB	Mantrez Walker	4* - 0.8932	Verbal
WR	Adrian Wilson	4* - 0.9075	Verbal

That list.

 

[Bear Fiend]

Are incoming kickers in another thread?

 

[o_robbie]

Pearson is a surprise to me and to a lesser extent C. Russell. But it looked like he was buried on the Depth Chart also at WR.

 

[Jens1893]

Think it’d help if we added a note for the reason the non-transfers leave.

 

[WasianCU]

Think it’d help if we added a note for the reason the non-transfers leave.

I'll work on adding those in soon. There's a lot of updating needed for those but it's difficult to find exactly who is leaving with all the eligibility changes right now. For now the list is just Trav and the guys who walked on senior day.

 

[Jens1893]

I'll work on adding those in soon. There's a lot of updating needed for those but it's difficult to find exactly who is leaving with all the eligibility changes right now. For now the list is just Trav and the guys who walked on senior day.

its cool, but id maybe simplify it to "declared for draft" and "out of eligibility" or something for now

 

[o_robbie]

I'd like to get a visual of the Depth Chart again if someone cares to update it once we know who all ended up with a RS for last year. I'm pretty optimistic about our DL next year if we can get another Big DT or 2 to come over to keep that rotation of at 4 or 5 deep. Right now it looks like we have Mcneil, Tawfiq, Barnes Jr, and Brandon DS coming back. I can't say for sure if T.Carter exhausted eligibility or not. I don't think the Freshman are recruited to play as Run Stopping DE/DT in year 1. I expect both of them to play very little in year 1.

I'd like to see 1 DE brought in also who compliments Walker, Wiggins, McCoy who all appear to be more of Rush Ends.

So my transfer portal wish list for the D.Line is 1 DE and 2 DT's

 

[Medford M.]

Pearson is a surprise to me and to a lesser extent C. Russell. But it looked like he was buried on the Depth Chart also at WR.

I don't think either was going to contribute here.

Russell either needs to move to TE or go down to G5

 

[Costa Rica Buff]

I'd like to get a visual of the Depth Chart again if someone cares to update it once we know who all ended up with a RS for last year. I'm pretty optimistic about our DL next year if we can get another Big DT or 2 to come over to keep that rotation of at 4 or 5 deep. Right now it looks like we have Mcneil, Tawfiq, Barnes Jr, and Brandon DS coming back. I can't say for sure if T.Carter exhausted eligibility or not. I don't think the Freshman are recruited to play as Run Stopping DE/DT in year 1. I expect both of them to play very little in year 1.

I'd like to see 1 DE brought in also who compliments Walker, Wiggins, McCoy who all appear to be more of Rush Ends.

So my transfer portal wish list for the D.Line is 1 DE and 2 DT's

Isn't Okunlola only a soph? I agree we need a monster run stopping DE but we should be set at rush end next year.

Carter was a grad transfer so we need at least 2 DT's for a healthy rotation.

 

[o_robbie]

Isn't Okunlola only a soph? I agree we need a monster run stopping DE but we should be set at rush end next year.

Carter was a grad transfer so we need at least 2 DT's for a healthy rotation.

I was thinking Okunlola played on the opposite side of Walker. I'm not sure which side Wiggins and McCoy cycle in on but with Hayes leaving I think we could definitely use a Run Stopping DE.

 

[Medford M.]

So after today's commits, we still need 15 more dudes to fill in the outgoing departures.

 

[GRM]

I am confident that we will get there, but there will be more moves come Spring as well.

 

[WasianCU]

Updated with the latest changes. Looks like we are off to a great start overall for portal season.