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Stanford DB Jonathan McGill enters NCAA Transfer Portal

On3 imageby:Billy Embody•11/28/22•

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Stanford DB Jonathan McGill. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

A big name in the PAC-12 entered the NCAA Transfer Portal on Monday. Sources confirmed to On3 that defensive back Jonathan McGill will transfer from Stanford as a graduate transfer. He entered with two years of eligibility remaining.

A captain in 2022 at Stanford, McGill finished with 51 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, seven pass breakups, one sack, a fumble recovery and an interception.

For his career, McGill notched 116 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss, 17 pass breakups and four interceptions in 32 career games.

The 5-9, 183-pound prospect ranked as the No. 52 overall safety and No. 66 prospect in Texas, according to the On3 Consensus.

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.

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.

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