Ohio State transfer Lejond Cavazos set to take official visit to North Carolina

Ohio State Buckeyes transfer defensive back Lejond Cavazos is set to take a visit to North Carolina on Friday, according to reports. Cavazos finished his redshirt freshman year with the Buckeyes with eight tackles and two pass deflections.

Cavazos played in 12 games during his time in Columbus, with 11 of them coming during the 2021 season and saw the most action against the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Michigan State Spartans, which so happen to be the games he tallied the only two pass deflections of his collegiate career thus far.

Cavazos, a former four-star recruit and top-400 player and top-30 safety in the Class of 2020. The product of IMG Academy has already taken a visit to Colorado, according to the same report. He received interest from Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas A&M, among others coming out of high school.

Former Ohio State CB Sevyn Banks commits to LSU

Former Ohio State cornerback Sevyn Banks has committed to LSU, he tells On3. 

The 6-foot-1, 180lb defensive back appeared in 22 games for the Buckeyes during his four years in Columbus. Banks totaled 45 tackles and 2 interceptions for his career. 

Coming out of high school he was a top cornerback prospect in the class of 2018 out of the state of Florida. Banks was a four-star recruit according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally-weighted average of all four major recruiting sites. 

Banks has an On3 NIL Valuation of $63k. He has a total of 38,000 followers across Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok. A majority of those followers are from his Instagram account, which has over 28,500 followers.

Transfer Portal

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 goes 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. The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player’s request.

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 However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship is no longer valid. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school does not have to reoffer a scholarship.