NC State wide receiver Porter Rooks to enter transfer portal
NC State wide receiver Porter Rooks plans to enter the transfer portal, he announced Tuesday afternoon. The junior has one year of eligibility remaining.
“With a heavy heart, I will be forgoing the upcoming bowl game and entering the transfer portal for my final year of eligibility,” Rooks wrote. “Love.”
Rooks caught 13 passes for 166 yards this season with the Wolfpack after he appeared in all 12 games. He played 286 snaps as a reserve wide receiver and logged a season-high 39 plays in the Pack’s 24-21 win at Virginia in Week 4.
The Charlotte, N.C., native caught 19 balls last season for 151 yards and his lone touchdown for the Wolfpack. He finished his NC State career with 79 receptions for 891 yards and a touchdown in four seasons on the field.
Rooks’ career-best season came in 2021 as he had 298 receiving yards on 23 catches for an average of 13 yards per reception.
The 6-foot-1, 201-pound receiver was a standout at Charlotte (N.C) Myers Park High where he caught 54 passes for 905 yards and 13 touchdowns during his senior season.
Rooks began his high school career at Providence Day Academy, where he posted 1,538 yards and 22 touchdowns in 22 games.
Rooks is the eighth Wolfpack player to declare their intention to enter the transfer portal and the sixth to do so this week.
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He joined
*** Defensive back Darius Edmundson
*** Wide receiver Anthony Smith
*** Tight end Christopher Toudle
*** Running back Jordan Houston
*** Running back Michael Allen
*** Linebacker Daejuan Thompson
*** Cornerback Nate Evans
Based on TheWolfpacker.com’s scholarship count, Rooks’ departure would bring NC State down to 84 total scholarships for the 2024 season once the 20 prep signees officially join the program.
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.
