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Zyun Reeves enters the transfer portal

MattCarterby: Matt Carter04/17/23TheWolfpacker
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NC State football has lost a third player post-spring to the transfer portal. Redshirt sophomore defensive lineman Zyun Reeves is leaving, confirmed by On3’s Matt Zenitz on Monday morning.

Reeves, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., and product of East Forsyth High, played in just 2 games last fall for the Wolfpack, logging 1 tackle. He played a total of 21 snaps, nine against UConn and 12 vs. Charleston Southern.

Reeves was not expected to be on the depth chart at a loaded defensive end position for NC State this fall.

The 6-foot-7, 275-pounder was well-touted in high school as part of the 2021 class. The On3 Industry Ranking listed him at No. 29 in the state of North Carolina, and he possessed an impressive offer list that included over 15 Power Five offers. He picked NC State over Virginia after earlier having a top five that also contained Florida State, Michigan State and South Carolina.

Reeves was one of the few players who elected to partake in the rare spring season of high school football due to the pandemic but tore his ACL prior to the start of the campaign.

Zyun Reeves joins fourth-year redshirt sophomore quarterback Ben Finley and redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Thornton Gentry in entering the transfer portal.

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.

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