BREAKING: Wake Forest transfer wide receiver Horatio Fields signs with Auburn
Wake Forest transfer wide receiver Horatio Fields has signed with Auburn.
Fields, who has one year of eligibility remaining, announced his decision Thursday on social media. He chose Auburn over Kentucky.
Fields’s decision comes after an official visit to Auburn. He knew following the visit that he wanted to be a Tiger.
“It went very well,” he said. “Coach (Marcus) Davis told me from the jump that he wanted to get me here and show me the energy. I saw it. Everybody had great energy. Everybody is spiritual. This is a place that you want to be with a group of guys like this.
“And the icing on the cake was Coach (Hugh) Freeze at the end. They all preach that this is a group that invests in each other. Coach Freeze emphasized that.”
Fields is excited about Auburn’s acquisition of quarterback Jackson Arnold.
“They are excited about what he can do and what he brings to Auburn,” he said. “They know that with him they can take that next step. I know that with a QB like him, the sky is the limit, for sure.”
Fields in 2024 had 39 catches for 463 yards and four touchdowns.
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.
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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.
