College Football 26 Transfer Portal Targets Guide (Part 1)

As Christmas Eve sets in, I wanted to do something a little more technical to wrap up the year. And with it being bowl season, the transfer portal opening up in real life, and EA putting out updated ratings, it felt like a good time to put together a full transfer portal targets guide that covers most of the usual people you’ll see after Year 1 of a dynasty with default settings in place.

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With this initial list, I am just covering the QBs and RBs (roughly 270 potential targets), but all other positions will be added next week. I am focusing just on Year 1 (and using default portal settings) because the “usual targets” are harder to pinpoint after people swap teams.

And if you — like me — tweak transfer portal settings to stop so many players from entering the portal, that’s okay as well — this list still works, it just covers more players than you’ll see per team.

So what’s in this spreadsheet for the players?

• The usual bio stuff (name, position, year, archetype)

• OVR rating when entering the portal, plus their star rating on their player card (just for fun, doesn’t really mean much)

• Their portal star rating

• Their Development Trait

• Their Dealbreaker

• Key attributes

• Their skill cap totals

In addition, I mention which players don’t always enter the portal, which sometimes enter the NFL Draft, and then I also list whether they have chosen to enter the portal in real life or not (as of now at least) just to give a little real life touch to it.

Any players I don’t list, I generally just don’t think are worth looking at overall — albeit eye of the beholder plays a part in that one.

Lastly, because only so many 5-star players enter the portal each season, this will change some of the highest end players you see year to year when simulating Year 1, so those are the guys I worry a little less about because obviously you want whatever 5-star dudes are in there (you don’t need me to tell you that).

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