Buckeyes QB J.P. Andrade enters NCAA transfer portal
Ohio State quarterback J.P. Andrade has entered the NCAA transfer portal, a source told 247Sports. Andrade has been a preferred walk-on quarterback for the Buckeyes since the 2019 season, but 247Sports’ evaluators assigned him a 3-star grade coming out of high school at La Verne (Calif.) Bonita. The 6-foot-2, 210-pounder held an offer from South Alabama as a high school prospect as well as FCS offers from Fordham and Morehead State.
Andrade did not appear in a game for Ohio State over his three seasons in Columbus. He becomes the fourth quarterback to transfer out of Ohio State this offseason along with former 5-star recruit Quinn Ewers, former 4-star recruit Jack Miller and walk-on Jagger LaRoe; Ewers landed at Texas while Miller ended up at Florida.
C.J. Stroud will return to lead the Buckeyes next season after a prolific redshirt freshman campaign in 2021, while former 5-star recruit Kyle McCord remains on the roster as well. 4-star 2022 quarterback Devin Brown from Draper (Utah) Corner Canyon signed with the Buckeyes in December and will also join what should be a highly talented position group that will have one of the top wide receiver corps in all of college football at its disposal once again even with the departures of Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson to the NFL as potential first-round picks.
The NCAA introduced the transfer portal on Oct. 15, 2018, providing athletes a path to explore their options. Players do not need to ask permission from their coaching staff in order to transfer. They merely need to request that compliance enter their name. Usually, it takes 24-48 hours for a player to appear following their request. Schools are free to contact a player without restriction once their name appears in the portal.
While a player entering their name in the transfer portal means they intend to explore their options, it does not necessarily mean they will leave. A player is free to withdraw his name at any time. However, schools are under no obligation to keep a player on scholarship once they enter the portal.
There were 2,646 FBS players to enter the transfer portal during the 2020-21 transfer cycle, sources said. That is up from 1,692 in 2019-20 and 1,717 in 2018-19.
That increase can at least partially be credited to the NCAA’s new policy that student-athletes are allowed to transfer once in their careers without having to sit out a year-in-residence. That means all players who enter the transfer portal for the first time will be immediately eligible at their new school as long as they meet a NCAA mandated entry deadline.
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