Kentucky WR Shamar Porter enters transfer portal

Kentucky needed to lose some scholarship players if some additions were going to be made in the spring transfer portal window. Another wide receiver hit the free agency wire on Monday as the Wildcats go under a drastic makeover in that room after hiring Daikiel Shorts Jr. in December.

Shamar Porter joined Raymond Cottrell and Ardell Banks on Monday becoming the third Kentucky receiver to enter the portal since the end of spring practice. The Wildcats have now seen five scholarship players leave the program this spring.

The Nashville (Tenn.) Ensworth product was the highest-ranked recruit in Kentucky’s 2023 signing class. However, Porter never found a role in year one and got buried on the depth chart this spring. Back in December, the former four-star recruit entered the transfer portal only to ultimately withdraw his name. Now the former top-300 recruit is a free agent again.

Shamar Porter suffered an ankle injury during fall camp. Under new leadership on offense, Porter did not make a push for playing time while UAB transfer Fred Farrier II and early enrollee Hardley Gilmore IV carved out roles with the twos during spring practice.

Kentucky is now down to eight scholarship wide receivers on the roster.

Kentucky Transfer Tracker

Let’s take a quick look at the movement with seen from the Kentucky roster in the transfer portal.

• Jalen Geiger (Entered on Nov. 27): Committed to Tulane on Jan. 6
• Izayah Cummings (Entered on Nov. 29): Committed to Louisville on Dec. 18
• Luke Fulton (Entered on Dec. 1): Committed to Kent State on Jan. 12
• Shamar Porter (Entered on Dec. 4): Withdrew from the transfer portal on Dec. 8
• Jamarius Dinkins (Entered on Dec. 4): Committed to Purdue on Dec. 10
• Destin Wade (Entered on Dec. 4): Committed to Colorado on Dec. 15
• Keaten Wade (Entered on Dec. 4): Committed to Colorado on Dec. 15
• JuTahn McClain (Entered on Dec. 4)
• Grant Bingham (Entered on Dec. 4)
• Dekel Crowdus (Entered on Dec. 4): Committed to Hawaii on Jan. 18
• Martez Thrower (Entered on Dec. 4): Committed to Georgia State on Jan. 6
• Kaiya Sheron (Entered on Dec. 5): Enrolled at UT Martin
• Jordan Dingle (Entered on Dec. 7): Withdrew from transfer portal on Dec. 16
• Elijah Reed (Entered on Dec. 11)
• Deuce Hogan (Entered on Dec. 30): Committed to New Mexico State on Jan. 6
• La’Vell Wright (Entered on April 10)
• Raymond Cottrell (Entered on April 16)
• Ardell Banks (Entered on April 22)
• Jackson Smith (Entered on April 22)
• Shamar Porter (Entered on April 22)