With the news yesterday that quarterback Michael Johnson, Jr. decided to enter the transfer portal, it got me thinking about how things have gone for Penn State in the portal era.
I think overall we could say that the transfer portal hasn’t been that unkind to the Lions. Admittedly, there was a pretty big exodus a couple years ago, but in truth that had more to do with underclassmen outperforming upperclassmen more than anything else. On a player-by-player basis, you could see how they fit into the depth chart, what was coming behind them, and them moving on made sense.