Texas A&M second-year EDGE Jahzion Harris enters transfer portal

Texas A&M second-year EDGE Jahzion Harris has entered the NCAA transfer portal, On3 has learned.

Harris was a Class of 2021 four-star recruit and was rated as the 21st-best EDGE and 207th-best overall prospect in the 2021 class according to the On3 Consensus Rankings. He played in two games as a freshman last season and finished with four tackles and a sack.

The New York native ”expressed an intent to be closer to home,” it states in his portal entry.

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.

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.