West Virginia defender, brother of five-star recruit enters transfer portal

West Virginia defensive back Daryl Porter Jr announced Wednesday morning via social media that he plans to enter the transfer portal. He is the older brother of 2022 On3 consensus five-star edge rusher Marvin Jones Jr.

Daryl Porter Jr entered the transfer portal after two seasons with West Virginia. He arrived on campus as an unranked recruit in the 2020 class but worked his way onto the field quickly on defense and special teams.

The 5-foot-11 redshirt sophomore finished the 2021 season with 46 tackles, one interception and five pass deflections.

Porter was initially recruited by defensive assistant Jahmile Addae, who also helped recruit his brother at Georgia. Addae recently left his position at Georgia, where Jones Jr committed, for a similar role at Miami.

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.

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.