Nebraska safety Jaeden Gould and WR Kamonte Grimes enter the transfer portal
Former four-star safety Jaeden Gould, along with wide receiver Kamonte Grimes have entered the NCAA transfer portal.
The New Jersey native Gould entered his name into the portal after just one season at Nebraska. Gould and Grimes become the fifth Husker player to enter the portal since the hiring of Matt Rhule, joining linebacker Ernest Hausmann, offensive lineman Brant Banks and wide receiver Decoldest Crawford.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Gould saw action in just one game this season against Oklahoma.
Gould came to Nebraska after being recognized as the top player in New Jersey. Gould played both cornerback and safety for powerhouse Bergen Catholic High School, and he was named the 2021 New Jersey High School Player of the Year by MaxPreps.
Gould helped Bergen Catholic to its 15th state championship, a 12-0 record and a No. 4 national ranking during his senior season.
In two years at NU, the Florida native Grimes did not see any action for the Huskers.
The portal does not technically open until Dec. 5, but because NU had another head coaching change, Husker players can enter immediately.
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.
