Source: Abdur-Rahmaan Yaseen schedules Vanderbilt, Michigan State visits

Abdur-Rahmaan Yaseen is starting to craft his visit schedule.

The Purdue transfer wide receiver entered the portal last week as a grad transfer. A former four-star recruit, he set a career high with 25 catches for 329 yards in six games in 2023. Injuries have been a struggle in the past.

Yaseen is still drawing interest from more than 10 schools. While he works to whittle down his list, he’s scheduled visits for the next two weekends. A source tells On3 the wide receiver will be in Nashville this weekend, spending time with Vanderbilt’s staff. Next weekend he will be at Michigan State, getting to know first-year head coach Jonathan Smith.

His list of scholarship offers includes South Carolina, Minnesota, Mississippi State, East Carolina, Liberty, Kentucky and USF.

Michigan State and Vanderbilt have both lost talent at the position. The Commodores lost top wide receiver Will Sheppard and three quarterbacks. Michigan State receivers Christian Fitzpatrick, Tyrell Henry and Jaron Glover have all left the program.

To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3’s 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.