Former Texas A&M DL Walter Nolen commits to Ole Miss

Former Texas A&M DL Walter Nolen has committed to Ole Miss, he tells On3.

The 6’5 300 DL will have 2 years of eligibility remaining.

Nolen sent a statement to On3:

“This past month has been wild, but with the help of my family and closest friends I have come to the fact that my time in college station has come to an end. I want to thank the 12th man for taking a chance on a kid out of Memphis, TN. Thank you coach E for helping me grow in more ways than i ever thought. 

I want to thank all my brothers in the locker room, blood couldn’t make us closer. 

With that being said I would like to announce I will be attending the university of Ole Miss for my last 2 years of eligibility. 

I want to thank Oregon for taking a chance on me in the portal but I feel God has a different plan for me and my family.”

Walter Nolen Recruiting Profile

Nolen ranked as the No. 1 player according to the 2022 On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He also tabs in as the No. 1 defensive lineman and the No. 11 player in the state of Tennessee.

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 asynchronous 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.

He currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $563K. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.