Texas A&M extends offer to Wyoming transfer wide receiver Joshua Cobbs
Texas A&M extended an offer to Wyoming transfer wide receiver Joshua Cobbs. Cobbs revealed the offer from the Aggies on his Twitter page. Cobbs appeared in 12 games this past season, catching 35 passes for 407 yards, two touchdowns and 11.6 yards per catch. Overall, Cobbs has 60 catches, 652 yards, three touchdowns and 10.9 yards per catch.
As a member of the Class of 2020, Cobbs was a three-star prospect out of San Antonio (Texas) Karen Wager, according to the On3 Consensus. He was the No. 265 overall prospect in the state, the No. 298 wide receiver prospect in the class and the No. 2,023 overall prospect in the class.
Cobbs is ranked No. 288 overall in the 2023 On3 Transfer Portal Player Rankings.
Transfer portal background information
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.