The deadline to enter the transfer portal and be eligible for the 2022 college football season passed last month, and most of the remaining uncommitted players have solidified their fall plans in recent weeks. We don’t have a formal transfer window in the sport (yet), but the start of June does marks a turning point in finalizing the rosters for the upcoming season.
So how did the ACC fare in the transfer portal during the 2022 cycle? Modern transfer rules have allowed players to not only move with less restriction, but have immediate eligibility to make an instant impact. In the ACC, that’s been a boost for the schools that have undergone coaching changes, as Duke, Miami, Virginia and Virginia Tech all saw some roster fluctuation in the offseason.
Elsewhere in the ACC, the transfer portal has allowed coaches get experienced contributors who don’t need years of development to have an impact. When you’re going into a high-pressure season — like Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville and Syracuse — coaches want to know the depth chart isn’t loaded with players who are a year away.
As a conference, the ACC wasn’t the most active in the portal, but even the programs bringing in just a couple of transfers have a name or two of note who could have a major role in their team’s success during the 2022 season. Below we’ve highlighted four players expected to be impact transfers across the ACC, plus one player to know for each of the remaining 10 teams in the conference
Louisville DL Jermayne Lole
Defense will be one of the biggest factors that will determine whether Louisville is successful in 2022, and that side got a huge boost with Lole’s late-May commitment and transfer from Arizona State. After missing the 2021 season because of injury, Lole is looking to recapture the form that had him as one of the most consistently productive interior defensive linemen in the nation.
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