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Rice Football and the Transfer Portal: Are the Owls better off?

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Rice football has to deal with the Transfer Portal, just like every other program. Are the Owls better off or has the portal left at a deficit?

Every December the football season winds down and the Transfer Portal takes center stage. Rice football isn’t immune to players opting to leave the program for one reason or another. But is Rice winning in the transfer market or are they losing? How is this new adaptation specifically impacting the Owls? In short: the Transfer Portal has been a huge benefit to Rice football, and it’s not particularly close.

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I last did this study in 2019, evaluating players that came and went that season. The results were overwhelmingly positive. This look back will focus on players who came and went via the Portal for the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

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Rice Football: 2022 Spring semester roster notes

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The Rice football roster has seen some significant changes since the Owls last played a game. Here are the most prominent adjustments.

Roster churn impacts every college program in the country and the changes have only been exacerbated by the ever-changing transfer climate. Rice football has experienced a large number of adjustments to its roster from where things left off last season. Some of those shifts can be attributed to transfers, others involve players who have left the program for one reason or another.

This update highlights which key players have been left off the most recently released roster as of the end of January as well as incoming spring enrollees and various notes regarding position shifts, number changes and more.

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Rice Football Recruiting: Breaking down the 2022 signees – Defense, Sp. Tms.

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The 2022 Rice Football Recruiting class is anchored in the defensive trenches with a top-flight playmaker in the secondary.

Rice signed 12 players during the Early Signing Period and added five more on National Signing Day. Of those players, nine are current high school seniors and five of them play on the defensive side of the ball as well as one specialist, the focal positional areas of this update.

We’ve gone position by position breaking down each new Owl and how where they project to fit for this program moving forward.

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Defensive Line (2) – Davion Carter, Chibby Nwajuaku
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Rice Football Recruiting: Breaking down the 2022 signees – Offense

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The 2022 Rice Football Recruiting class packs a punch with a host of offensive skill players that promise to have bright futures at South Main.

Rice signed 12 players during the Early Signing Period and added five more on National Signing Day. Of those players, nine are current high school seniors and 11 of them play on the offensive side of the focal point of this update. We’ve gone position by position breaking down each new Owl and how where they project to fit for this program moving forward.

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Quarterback (1) – AJ Padgett

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Rice Football Recruiting: 2022 National Signing Day Live Blog

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The 2022 Rice Football Recruiting class is winding down. Follow all the action here as the Owls close out another quality class.

The recruiting front has been one of the most successful facets of this program in recent years. The 2022 Rice Football recruiting class hopes to continue on that newly established tradition of successes. This live tracker will follow all the latest news and updates through the day, with further updates on the class as its finalized. If you’re not a subscriber yet, here’s your chance.

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Which newcomers are program-changing talents? Who is the diamond in the rough? More to come. For the time being, let’s dig into the latest from National Signing Day, below.

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