Wyoming OL Transfer Emmanuel Pregnon Commits to USC
Wyoming offensive lineman Emmanuel Pregnon is a hot commodity in the spring transfer portal window. He detailed 20 different offers from schools already.
On Wednesday he announced his commitment to USC.
According to his Twitter feed, there were many Power Five programs hoping to land him. This is for a prospect that didn’t play college football after two years with Wyoming. Pregnon finally started at guard last year.
The Class of 2020 prospect wasn’t ranked according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
Impressive offer list
According to Pregnon, he had offers from Virginia Tech, Texas A&M, LSU, Miami, Tennessee, Penn State, Charlotte, Arizona State, Auburn, Kentucky, Washington State, Colorado, Ole Miss, UCLA, Indiana, Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue and Arizona.
Pregnon has three years of eligibility remaining.
“He’s big, he’s powerful, he moves well and he has multiple years (of eligibility remaining),” an SEC offensive line coach told On3’s Matt Zenitz. “That’s what everybody’s looking for. I know he’s a weight room guy. He’s just yoked up. Not really any fat if I’m not mistaken. You can tell he’s got a high ceiling, a huge ceiling.”
USC Official Visit
WeAreSC learned on Sunday morning that Pregnon arrived for his USC official visit on Saturday. He was hosted by former Cowboys teammate Solomon Byrd, Jonah Monheim and a host of other USC players.
I’m told head coach Lincoln Riley will entertained Pegnon and guys at his Palos Verdes Estates home overlooking the Pacific Ocean on Sunday night.
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.
Transfer portal history
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.
