Oregon receiver Isaiah Brevard enters the transfer portal

One of Oregon’s highly-touted receivers appears headed for an exit from the program.

Isaiah Brevard, a former 4-star signee with the Ducks, has entered the transfer portal according to a report from On3’s Matt Zenitz.

In two seasons at Oregon, the redshirt freshman played 24 offense snaps and caught one pass for six yards. He played in 10 games for the Ducks last season, with the majority of his playing time coming on special teams.

Brevard arrived at Oregon alongside a star-studded receiver group that included fellow 4-stars Troy Franklin and Dont’e Thornton. According to the On3 Consensus, the 6-foot-4, 200-pound wideout was the No. 195 overall player and the No. 31 receiver in the class of 2021.

A Southaven, Miss., native, Brevard received offers from Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas A&M, among many others, out of high school.

Brevard becomes the 18th Oregon player to enter the transfer portal this offseason, and the third Ducks’ receiver to hit the portal. Sophomores Seven McGee and Dont’e Thornton also opted to do so.

**Oregon Transfer Portal Tracker: Who’s in and who’s out?**

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.