Browns GM Andrew Berry believes the college football transfer portal could actually help in the NFL Draft
The NFL Draft is less than a week away and teams have wrapped up visits and are now finalizing their draft board. When evaluating players in today’s game, NFL folks often have to look at multiple schools when evaluating a prospect. The transfer portal has never been bigger and it has a role in producing […]
The NFL Draft is less than a week away and teams have wrapped up visits and are now finalizing their draft board.
When evaluating players in today’s game, NFL folks often have to look at multiple schools when evaluating a prospect. The transfer portal has never been bigger and it has a role in producing talent for the draft.
Cleveland Browns GM Andrew Berry has an interesting take on the transfer portal and how it actually helps in scouting a player.
"To be honest, it's actually a little bit more helpful," said Berry. "You can get the perspective on the person in two totally different environments from, let's say, two or three different staffs. So I actually think that's more helpful in understanding the person than anything."
With NIL having such a large part in the college landscape today, players are on the move left and right. We see the transfer portal load up after the college football season and then again in the spring.
With players now able to play after their first transfer immediately, it is more and more common. It is not something that used to be all that popular at the college level.
"Transfers were so rare in college football that you really wanted to dig in on why a player was changing schools," Berry said. "Honestly, most of the time, it ended up being some type of disciplinary issue or something along those lines. So it was something that you would really kind of alert and make sure you had your arms fully around why the player switched schools. And now it's just not that way at all. It is almost like, oh wow, this guy didn't transfer."
Cleveland is scheduled to have six picks in the NFL Draft that will run from April 25-27, we’ll see if they come out with any former transfers.
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