Former Oregon receiver Seven McGee commits to Jackson State
In late October, Seven McGee became the first Oregon player during the 2022 transfer cycle to leave the program and express his intent to enter the portal.
Now, the former Ducks’ receiver has found his next career stop.
Late Tuesday, McGee announced on Twitter that he has committed to transfer to Jackson State.
In seven games this season, McGee has caught 11 passes for 67 yards. He has also returned six kicks for 99 yards.
McGee came to Oregon as a running back and played there sparingly as a true freshman before making a midseason switch to receiver. This season, he was expected to be in the mix for playing time and compete with Kris Hutson for the starting job at slot receiver.
But he played just 101 snaps throughout Oregon’s first eight games and opted to leave the program on Oct. 31.
A former 4-star recruit, McGee was the No. 175 overall prospect in the class of 2021.
He will join a Jackson State program that went 12-0 this season under former head coach Deion Sanders and won the SWAC.
Sanders accepted the head coach job at Colorado earlier this month. Jackson State announced on Tuesday that it has hired T.C. Taylor as its next head coach.
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.
