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Oklahoma OT Brey Walker enters transfer portal
ByCHRIS HUMMER 18 minutes agoOklahoma fourth-year offensive tackle Brey Walker has entered the transfer portal, 247Sports has learned.
When Walker signed with Oklahoma in 2018, he was viewed as the program’s next great offensive tackle. Nearly four seasons later, Walker has taken a total of 308 career snaps. That includes just 40 this season, a campaign in which many thought he might emerge as a contributor with a ton of questions along the Sooners’ offensive front.
Walker ranked as the No. 29 overall player and the No. 4 OT in the 2018 class, per the 247Sports Composite.
The NCAA introduced the transfer portal on Oct. 15, 2018, providing athletes a path to explore their options. Players do not need to ask permission from their coaching staff in order to transfer. They merely need to request that compliance enter their name. Usually, it takes 24-48 hours for a player to appear following their request. Schools are free to contact a player without restriction once their name appears in the portal.
While a player entering their name in the transfer portal means they intend to explore their options, it does not necessarily mean they will leave. A player is free to withdraw his name at any time. However, schools are under no obligation to keep a player on scholarship once they enter the portal.
There were 2,646 FBS players to enter the transfer portal during the 2020-21 transfer cycle, per a source. That's up from 1,692 in 2019-20 and 1,717 in 2018-19.
That increase can at least partially be credited to the NCAA's new policy that student-athletes are allowed to transfer once in their careers without having to sit out a year-in-residence. That means all players who enter the transfer portal for the first time will be immediately eligible at their new school as long as they meet a NCAA mandated entry deadline.
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