Ohio State Buckeyes offensive lineman Phillip Daniels (70) works out during spring football practice at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center in Columbus on March 17, 2025. Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Where every Gophers transfer portal departure landed this offseason

Originally posted on Minnesota Golden Gophers on SI
By Tony Liebert | Last updated May 17, 2025 12:29 PM ET

The impending House v. NCAA settlement made for one of the craziest offseasons in the transfer portal era of college football. 30 total players and 16 scholarship players with eligibility remaining left the Gophers' roster, so where did they all end up?

2024-25 Gophers football transfer portal departures

Roster sizes were hard capped at 105 this offseason, which prompted the most roster movement in the history of the sport. There's a good chance we never see this many players leave the Gophers program, as long as P.J. Fleck remains the head coach.

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Phillip Daniels to Ohio State, Coleman Bryson to North Carolina, T.J. McWilliams to Louisville and Martes Lewis to Northwestern were the only four transfers to remain at the power conference level. There were only nine more to remain at the FBS level. 17 of the Gophers' transfers dropped down to FCS, haven't committed to a new school, or retired from the sport altogether.

Fleck and his staff did an effective job upgrading Minnesota's roster with 21 transfer portal additions since the end of the 2024 season.