Baylor running back Josh Fleeks enters NCAA transfer portal

On3 imageby:Griffin McVeigh•10/04/22•

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Baylor Bears running back Josh Fleeks has entered the NCAA transfer portal according to Matt Zenitz of On3. A fifth-year running back, Fleeks has appeared in just three games this season under head coach Dave Aranda. Now, he will be looking for a new home to finish out his college eligibility.

Fleeks entered the program for the 2018 season when Matt Rhule was still in charge in Waco. While he was a consistent player on the field for Baylor, the running back only earned one career start with it occurring last year.

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Coming out of high school, Fleeks was rated a four-star prospect by the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting services. He was originally viewed as a wide receiver but eventually moved to running back for the Bears. Fleeks attended Cedar Hill High School in Texas, being the No. 51 prospect in the state.

Transfer portal background information for Baylor, Josh Fleeks

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.

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.