JD PicKell: Colorado's work in the transfer portal is 'frightening'
Colorado and Deion Sanders hit the transfer portal hard this offseason. And while that’s not surprising in this day and age, Colorado had immense roster turnover.
It’s pretty much an entirely different roster compared to the 2022 version. The Buffaloes went 1-11 last year but that will likely not be the case this fall.
On3’s J.D. PicKell called Colorado and Sanders’ work in the transfer portal “frightening.”
“Coach Prime and company, they got the number two portal class for us,” PicKell said on The Hard Count. “They just flipped the entire roster. Like when you talk about Colorado this coming season, I don’t want to hear a peep but what they did in 2022 A lot of people are gonna say oh they only won one game. Those people that were a part of that one win season aren’t in Boulder, Colorado anymore. Coach Prime went and got 43 transfers and counting. The sheer volume of new individuals they have on that roster is just frightening. It’s a totally new outfit at Colorado. And it’s not just the volume. They also got some really good players.”
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There are so many transfers, it would take a whole other show for PicKell to list them all.
“We don’t have enough time to go through every single person that transferred into Colorado,” PicKell said. “So Colorado, just completely knocked the entire old house down, picked up some pieces and not just rebuilt. The house where it was, they took a whole new property, whole new neighborhood, whole new zip code and are building Colorado to a new operation in 2023.
“So Colorado, No. 2 portal class for us. The volume, the quality, it’s a new Colorado. Never seen anything like it in college football, modern college football any way you want to shape it. Any kind of history era you want to pull from, we haven’t seen this before. So I am fascinated to see what happens in ‘23 and beyond for Coach Prime.”
Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter were the two biggest acquisitions in the portal for Sanders. He brought them and more from Jackson State and many other places.
Shedeur should start at quarterback and Hunter will play in a two-way role at wide receiver and defensive back. It should be quite the party in Boulder this fall.
Colorado opens the football season September 2 on the road against TCU.