USC offers Penn DL Joey Slackman in transfer portal
USC has dished out their first offer in the transfer portal in 2023 to Penn graduate transfer defensive tackle Joey Slackman. The 6-foot-4, 300-pounder who will graduate in December and have one year of eligibility remaining.
Slackman entered the transfer portal Nov. 20. At the time, he wrote a thank you “to the Penn brotherhood for an amazing 4.5 years” and said he’s “excited to see what comes next.” The portal opens Dec. 4 for all college football players, but graduates are able to enter now.
He has also reported offers from Michigan, Northwestern, Washington, Florida, Missouri, TCU, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Oregon State, Vanderbilt, Miami, Louisville, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Duke, Virginia Tech, Illinois, Rutgers, Houston, Pittsburgh, BYU and UConn.
Slackman registered 50 tackles, including 12 behind the line of scrimmage and 4 sacks, with 1 pass breakup this season. His 90.1 overall Pro Football Focus (PFF) grade led all FCS defensive tackles, as did his 92.8 run-defense rating. He posted 18 pressures as a pass rusher, which was tied for 36th among FCS interior defensive linemen. Penn posted a 6-4 overall record and 3-4 mark in the Ivy League.
A first-team all-conference selection, Slackman is currently one of four finalists for the Ivy League’s Defensive Player of the Year award. He would be the first Quaker to win the award since 2015.
Slackman, who was also a former wrestler at Penn, switched to football two years into his collegiate career, was named a 2022 All-Ivy honorable mention after starting all 10 games and tallying 49 tackles and 4.5 sacks. In his three years playing at Penn, the senior has recorded 115 tackles, 25.0 tackles for a loss, 11.0 sacks, three passes defended, two forced fumbles and the blocked kick.
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.
He currently does not have an On3 NIL Valuation publicly listed. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.
