Arizona State wide receiver LV Bunkley-Shelton transfers to Oklahoma

Former Arizona State Sun Devil wide receiver LV Bunkley-Shelton officially exited the transfer portal this evening with an announcement on his Twitter page. He’ll be playing his college football next season for the Oklahoma Sooners.

Just earlier today, he had narrowed his list to Kansas and Oklahoma, according to On3’s Matt Zenitz. The former four-star recruit was part of the exodus of talent from the Sun Devils this year.

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As a true freshman with the Sun Devils, he played a limited role, hauling in just 11 receptions for 100 yards. LV Bunkley-Shelton tripled his production in 2021, catching 33 passes for 418 yards and two touchdowns and saw targets in each game last season before entering the transfer portal in late April and narrowing his list to Kansas and Oklahoma.

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A former four-star recruit out of California, Bunkley-Shelton was the No. 124 player in the Class of 2020 and was a top-25 wide receiver in the class, as well as top-15 player in his home state, according to the On3 Consensus. He is also the No. 9 overall receiver still available in the transfer portal.

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.

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.

On3’s James Fletcher III also contributed to this article.