Former West Virginia cornerback announces transfer destination

Former West Virginia cornerback Daryl Porter, Jr. announced his transfer destination on Thursday night. The highly coveted corner decided that he’s going to join head coach Mario Cristobal and the Miami Hurricanes. He announced the move on his Twitter page tonight, with the caption, “Freak Back in Miami.”

Check out the picture he posted.

Freak Back in Miami 🔥🔥🔥🦅✨ pic.twitter.com/ZXx6JoF0UK

— DP 🦅✨ (@darylporterjr) February 25, 2022

He was a breakout player for the West Virginia secondary in 2021. In 13 games, he racked up 46 tackles, one tackle for loss, one interception, and six pass breakups. He chose the Hurricanes over his three other finalists, including LSU, Florida State, and Oregon.

In high school, played for American Heritage (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) and head coach Patrick Surtain. That program is one of the more prestigious high school football teams across America. As a senior, he racked up 20 tackles, three tackles for loss, six interceptions, and one fumble recovery.

For constant updates on where all the different college football prospects are going this off-season, keep it locked into the 2022 On3 Transfer Portal Wire.

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.

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.