Top college football transfer WR Keon Coleman picks Florida State

The highest-ranked wide receiver remaining in the college football transfer portal is officially off the market as Keon Coleman announced his intention to play for Florida State in the 2023 football season.

Coleman announced his preference for the Seminoles over Ole Miss, the other finalist in the race, after the wide receiver departed Michigan State this offseason.

In the last two seasons, the 6-foot-4, 215-pound Coleman caught 65 passes for 848 yards and scored eight touchdowns and has built a reputation as a big-play receiver with the ability to get behind defenses and bring in the long catches.

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College Football HQ pinpointed Florida State as one of the six teams most likely to sign Coleman, a welcome addition to a receiving corps that returns Johnny Wilson and scored tight end Jaheim Bell in the portal and would be a major release valve for returning quarterback Jordan Travis.

With his pledge, Florida State emerged as the No. 4 team in the College Football HQ Transfer Portal Team Rankings following the conclusion of the spring transfer window.

College football transfer portal team rankings after 2023 spring window

College football transfer portal

The NCAA Transfer Portal is a private database that includes the names of student-athletes in every sport at the Division I, II, and III levels. The full list of names is not available to the public.

A player can enter their name into the transfer portal through their school's compliance office. Once a player gives written notification of their intent to transfer, the office puts the player's name into the database, and they officially become a transfer.

The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player's request and NCAA rules forbid anyone from refusing that request.

The database includes the player's name, contact information, info on whether the player was on scholarship, and if he is a graduate student.

Once a player's name appears in the transfer portal database, other schools are free to contact the player, who can change his mind at any point in the process and withdraw from the transfer portal.

Notably, once a player enters the portal, his school no longer has to honor the athletic scholarship it gave him. And if that player decides to leave the portal and return to his original school, the school doesn't have to give him another scholarship.

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