Former Vanderbilt receiver Camron Johnson transfers to Arizona State

On3 imageby:Wade Peery05/07/22

Former Vanderbilt receiver Camron Johnson officially announced his transfer destination on Saturday afternoon on Twitter and he’ll be playing his college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Last season Johnson pulled in 34 catches for 327 receiving yards, while bringing in four touchdown catches. As a junior in 2020, the Tennessee native reeled in 56 catches for 545 receiving yards, leading the ‘Dores in both categories.

Johnson’s career high came during the 2020 season when he had 114 receiving yards on 10 catches against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. In transferring to Arizona State, he’ll join former Florida Gator signal-caller Emory Jones. Johnson also received interest from a number of other schools after he hit the transfer portal this fall, including: Oklahoma State, Miami (Ohio), Appalachian State, and Ole Miss.

For updates on where all the different college football prospects across America are headed this offseason, keep it locked to the 2022 On3 Transfer Portal Wire.

More on the NCAA Transfer Portal

The NCAA Transfer Portal, which covers every NCAA sport at the Division I, II and III levels, is a private database with names of student-athletes who wish to transfer. It is not accessible to the public.

The process of entering the portal is done through a school’s compliance office. Once a player provides written notification of an intent to transfer, the office enters the player’s name in the database and everything is off and running. The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player’s request and that request cannot be refused.

Once a player’s name shows up in the portal, other schools can contact the player. Players can change their minds at any point and withdraw from the portal. However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship no longer has to be honored. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school is not obligated to provide a scholarship anymore.

The database is a normal database, sortable by a variety of topics, including (of course) sport and name. A player’s individual entry includes basic details such as contact info, whether the player was on scholarship and whether the player is transferring as a graduate student.

A player can ask that a “do not contact” tag be placed on the report. In those instances, the players don’t want to be  contacted by schools unless they’ve initiated the communication.

The portal has been around since Oct. 15, 2018 and the new calendar cycle within the portal begins each August. For example, the 2021-22 cycle started Aug. 1. During the 2020-21 cycle, 2,626 FBS football players entered the transfer portal (including walk-ons). That comes after 1,681 entered during the 2019-20 cycle and 1,709 during the abbreviated 2018-19 cycle. In comparison, 1,833 Division I basketball players entered the portal during the 2020-21 cycle after totals of 1,020 in 2019-20 and 1,063 in 2018-19.