Colorado safety Isaiah Lewis enters NCAA transfer portal

Colorado safety Isaiah Lewis entered the NCAA transfer portal on Wednesday, according to On3’s Matt Zenitz. Lewis was the Buffaloes’ leading tackler in 2021 with a total of 79 stops. He also had two picks.

During the 2022 season, a tumultuous one that saw the Buffs lose their head coach, Lewis totaled 21 tackles and added an interception. He accumulated those 21 tackles in just four games played this year.

Lewis signed with Colorado in 2017 out of Granite Bay, California. He was a three-star prospect, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

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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 starts with the 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.

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 However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship is no longer valid. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school does not have to cover their scholarship.

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 for a “do not contact” tag on the report. In those instances, the players don’t want contact from schools unless they initiate the communication.