Ohio State loses wide receiver to college football transfer portal

Wide receiver is a position of strength for Ohio State, so much so that the room is a little crowded for some players, and now one wideout is on the move as Caleb Burton is entering the college football transfer portal ahead of the 2023 season.

Burton revealed an image of the email he received from the NCAA transfer portal informing him that Ohio State had submitted his name to the portal officially.

Burton was a member of the Buckeyes' football recruiting class in the 2022 cycle out of Del Valle, Texas, a former four-star prospect rated as a top-30 wide receiver.

He didn't play for Ohio State as a true freshman but was coming on during the team's practices leading up to the College Football Playoff, and earned some praise from quarterback C.J. Stroud during the postseason preparations.

Burton was injured on the first day of spring practices this offseason and was unable to fully take part, likely resulting in his falling down a crowded wide receiver depth chart again coming into this year had he stayed.

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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