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Transfer Targets:
CB Smith Snowden - Utah (committed to Michigan)
OT Tyree Adams - LSU (committed to Ole Miss)
CB AJ Harris - Penn State (committed to Indiana)
RB Carter Vargas - UC Davis (committed to Cal)
S Ian Foster - Southern Miss (committed to Memphis)
OL Jordan Seaton - Colorado (committed to LSU)
WR Darrell Gill - Syracuse (committed to Mississippi)
OT Jacarrius Peak - NC State (committed to South Carolina)
EDGE Jayden Woods - Florida (withdrawn)
RB Chauncey Sylvester - Weber State
DL Mason Clinton - Southern Miss (committed to Florida)
DL Katron Evans - Marshall (committed to NC State)

Transfers In:
P Bailey Ettridge - Nevada
K Keaton Emmett - Nevada
LS RJ Todd - Western Michigan
TE Andrew Olesh - Penn State
QB Dylan Raiola - Nebraska
WR Iverson Hooks - UAB
OL Michael Bennett - Yale
S Carl Williams IV - Baylor
S Koi Perich - Minnesota
CB Aaron Scott Jr. - Ohio State
TE Markus Dixon - Clemson
DT Jerome Simmons - ULM
DE Bleu Dantzler - Oregon State
DL D'Antre Robinson - North Carolina
RB Brandon Smith - Arizona
RB Simeon Price - Colorado
DL Derrick Brown Jr. - Howard

Transfers Out:
CB Dakota Fields - Oklahoma
CB Sione Laulea - Missouri
DB Solomon Davis - San Diego State
CB Jahlil Florence - Missouri
S Kingston Lopa - Cal
TE Kade Caton - USF
WR Kyler Kasper - BYU
WR Justius Lowe - San Diego State
WR Jurrion Dickey - Diablo Valley JC
QB Austin Novosad - Bowling Green
OL Lipe Moala - Hawai'i
RB Jay Harris - Kansas State
DB Daylen Austin - Arizona
RB Makhi Hughes - Houston
RB Jayden Limar - Washington
LB Kamar Mothudi - Cal
TE Zach Grace - LSU
QB Luke Moga - New Mexico
EDGE Blake Purchase - Mississippi
TE Vander Ploog - NC State
WR Cooper Perry - Cal
DL Xadavien Sims - Arkansas
EDGE Ashton Porter - Houston
DL Jericho Johnson - Cal
EDGE Tobi Haastrup - West Virginia
DL Tionne Gray - Notre Dame
TE Roger Saleapaga II - BYU
DL Terrance Green - Alabama

Daylen Austin

I would think there's gonna be some db targets now

A lot of notable player not in the transfer portal yet. Luke Moga, Da'Jaun Riggs, Makhi Hughes, Jayden Limar, to name a few.

Makhi Hughes in the portal.


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Duckenstein wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2026 5:16 pm Daylen Austin

Probably the first one that doesn’t make sense. I’m sure the hit and run incident is looming over him still. So maybe that’s it?

But he’s next in line so I’m confused…

OregonFan4Life wrote: Sat Jan 03, 2026 12:05 pm Makhi Hughes in the portal.


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Not much of a shock there. Wish I could understand what happened to him though. Just not as good as advertised I guess

The amount of secondary players is pretty surprising. Is this the first year where we’re losing players the staffed really wanted to keep?

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On3 ranked out portal guys. Honestly I don’t think we have lost anyone ever wanted to keep. There was a reason Dan recruited so many DBs this last cycle

Austin Novosad - 3 stars / rank 511th / 44th QB
Kyler Kasper - 3 stars / rank 991st / 158th WR
Lipe Moala - 3 stars / rank 506th / 37th IOL
Kingston Lopa - 3 stars / rank 288th / 20th S
Sione Laulea - 3 stars / rank 843rd / 96th CB
Justius Lowe - 3 stars / rank 807th / 132nd WR
Solomon Davis - 3 stars / rank 1139th / 124th CB
Dakoda Fields - 3 stars / rank 281st / 28th CB
Jahlil Florence - 3 stars / rank 343rd / 33rd CB
Daylen Austin - TBD
Jay Harris - TBD

Any intel from anyone? I've added the few targets I'm aware of but isn't much. Without the coaching staff cemented and a semifinal game on the docket, what a crazy period for the coaching staff. My hope/expectation is that Malchow and staff are primarily handling the transfer portal as this is what they do, not on field activities.

StevensTechU wrote: Sun Jan 04, 2026 9:27 am Any intel from anyone? I've added the few targets I'm aware of but isn't much. Without the coaching staff cemented and a semifinal game on the docket, what a crazy period for the coaching staff. My hope/expectation is that Malchow and staff are primarily handling the transfer portal as this is what they do, not on field activities.

Lanning said he met with 2 potential portal guys yesterday. But no one is saying who they are.

buckmarkduck wrote: Sun Jan 04, 2026 10:03 am

StevensTechU wrote: Sun Jan 04, 2026 9:27 am Any intel from anyone? I've added the few targets I'm aware of but isn't much. Without the coaching staff cemented and a semifinal game on the docket, what a crazy period for the coaching staff. My hope/expectation is that Malchow and staff are primarily handling the transfer portal as this is what they do, not on field activities.

Lanning said he met with 2 potential portal guys yesterday. But no one is saying who they are.

The Coaches/Staff knew the Portal was going to be these dates and they HAD to have planned to be juggling these roles but maybe not as much with both Lupoi and Stein leaving.

buckmarkduck wrote: Sun Jan 04, 2026 6:41 am
Austin Novosad - 3 stars / rank 511th / 44th QB
Kyler Kasper - 3 stars / rank 991st / 158th WR
Lipe Moala - 3 stars / rank 506th / 37th IOL
Kingston Lopa - 3 stars / rank 288th / 20th S
Sione Laulea - 3 stars / rank 843rd / 96th CB
Justius Lowe - 3 stars / rank 807th / 132nd WR
Solomon Davis - 3 stars / rank 1139th / 124th CB
Dakoda Fields - 3 stars / rank 281st / 28th CB
Jahlil Florence - 3 stars / rank 343rd / 33rd CB
Daylen Austin - TBD
Jay Harris - TBD
Malaki Hughes - TBD

I also have found transfer portal rankings a bit odd. How are they ranking Dakota Fields? Former four star ranked #110 nationally. Nice size for a college CB: 6-2 and 200. Didn't appear at all last year, I think only played at the end of the Montana State game this year. No one sees practice. Did they break down the Spring game and put the fact he didn't play at Oregon yet into a super formula that accurately incorporates all variables to determine exactly how deeply to drop him into the 3 star pool?

I guess Brew and probably Offord are now 3 stars too? What if Dillon Grisham enters, didn't play his freshman year and has been out all this year. How much of a three star is he? Laulea at 843 is just a whiff. Before his first injury, I saw PFF had him like 5th in the B1G among all B1G CBs in coverage grade, one spot behind Finney, with Ify and Johnson not listed (that is after getting an 85.1 coverage grade in limited action last year). I'm reasonably sure if healthy next year he would have pushed hard for CB2 and played rotationally if CB3, and I feel very good about Ify (with Offord of course likely being figured in). Few gave much more than a shrug when Roderick Pleasant left Oregon, and I'm sure he was dropped to a mid/low 3 star as well. Every account I saw he was UCLA's best CB this year and got some HM All-B1G run in some spots.

You'd think the portal rankings would be better than high school and juco, but they're not. They just don't allocate enough resources. You'd have to ask your employees who cover specific teams to maintain ratings for the active roster and then that's what it is when they go into the transfer portal, otherwise you're trying to evaluate 2,000 players suddenly and that's just not happening.