There were two big losses along the defensive line in the same day for the Texas football program, coming on Jan. 21. Texas lost a pair of senior defensive tackles, Gerald Wilbon and D’Andre Christmas-Giles, to the NCAA Transfer Portal on Tuesday afternoon. This is the time when programs like Texas can lose a waive of players to the transfer portal.
The ability of college football players of any level of eligibility to put their names in the transfer portal and explore their options at least is a game-changer. The trend of the transfer portal essentially becoming a free agency of sorts should only continue to shift the college football landscape year in and year out.