Colorado OL Jack Bailey enters NCAA Transfer Portal

The college football NCAA transfer portal is still up and active. On Wednesday afternoon, another player decided to search for a new home for the 2024 season. On3 learned that Colorado Buffaloes interior offensive lineman Jack Bailey has decided to enter the transfer portal.

Bailey transferred into the Buffaloes program in the offseason after starting his career at Kent State. He was not there for the entirety of head coach Deion Sanders’s first spring practice in Boulder, CO, as he arrived a few weeks before their spring game. Still, he was able to win a starting position on Colorado’s offensive line and was arguably one of the more consistent linemen in 2023. Bailey started in all 12 games for the Buffaloes and is credited with allowing just one quarterback hurry for the entirety of the season.

Bailey played high school football at Kirtland High in Willoughby, Ohio, where he was a three-star prospect. He was the No. 2434 overall recruit in the 2019 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

Kirk Herbstreit ponders EA Sports College Football 25 cover athlete, proposes Shedeur Sanders

An EA Sports college football video game is coming this summer. But who will grace the cover from the playing (or coaching) ranks is a matter still rife for debate.

It’s possible EA has settled on one or several candidates at this point. And one man who might know, ESPN college football analyst and color commentator Kirk Herbstreit, who did voiceovers for the game, plead ignorance during a discussion with two of his sons, Tye and Jake, on their podcast, Streit Talk.

“I have no idea,” Herbstreit said. “Like last year, if you were doing this game and it was coming into last season, I would think that Caleb Williams would’ve been, probably the obvious choice. Even though there’s a lot of big names that emerged throughout the year. I feel like there’s a lot of guys going to the draft this year, a lot of the bigger names.”

One returning quarterback did spring to mind for Herbstreit, one with an already large and notable following playing for his dad at Colorado.

“I think Shedeur Sanders is a massive name and a big following. I don’t know that,” Herbstreit said, making clear he wasn’t saying he knew Sanders would grace the cover, just that it makes sense. His sons also pointed to fellow Colorado star and former No. 1 overall recruit Travis Hunter as a possibility.

And Herbstreit pointed out another possibility that’s been raised: Multiple cover athletes, with the various art tailored to specific regions.

“I don’t know — are they saying one cover or are there going to be several covers? I haven’t heard,” Herbstreit said.