All-Conference linebacker enters college football transfer portal

One of the more productive defensive players in the Sun Belt is entering his name into the college football transfer portal in time for the 2026 season.

South Alabama linebacker Blayne Myrick intends to transfer away from the school and play elsewhere next season, his representatives told On3 Sports.

Myrick has played his most productive football over the last two seasons, recording 184 combined tackles while adding 14 tackles for loss, recording 2 sacks, and intercepting one pass in that time for the Jaguars.

His best performance came in 2024, when the Fairhope, Ala. native had 101 total stops and a personal-best 13 tackles in a single game against Arkansas State.

Myrick intercepted a pass and returned it 33 yards for a touchdown in the Jaguars’ regular season finale against Texas State, earning All-Sun Belt second-team honors.

How the college football transfer portal works

College football’s transfer portal officially opens on Jan. 2, but that hasn’t stopped a flurry of players from entering their names for consideration at a new school right now.

The new 15-day transfer portal window from Jan. 2-16 and the elimination of the spring transfer period has condensed the timeline for players and programs to make their moves.

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.

(On3)

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