Auburn offers Wyoming transfer offensive lineman Emmanuel Pregnon
Auburn football on Sunday offered Emmanuel Pregnon, one of the hottest offensive linemen so far in the transfer portal.
Pregnon, who is transferring from Wyoming, has played only one season of college ball, but it was good enough to have several top colleges knocking on his door.
Since entering the transfer portal on Saturday, Pregnon has received offers from Arizona State, Kentucky, Washington State, Colorado, Ole Miss, UCLA, Indiana, Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue and Arizona.
And now Auburn.
According to On3’s Matt Zenitz, Pregnon started last season at right guard for Wyoming. He was a Pro Football Focus third-team All-Mountain West selection and a College Football News second-team Freshman All-American. He has three years of eligibility.
Pregnon is the second transfer offensive lineman to receive an offer from Auburn. The first was Tulsa transfer Jaden Muskrat, who the Tigers offered on Saturday.
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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.
More on the transfer portal database
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 recruiting cycle after totals of 1,020 in 2019-20 and 1,063 in 2018-19.
