College football's 2023 all-transfer team through Week 3 - ESPN

To say the college football transfer portal has become an important tool for coaches to manage or overhaul their rosters would be an understatement. The portal has become as vital as high school recruiting, and coaches are relying on transfers now more than ever.

In 2022, there were 2,918 players who entered the portal, up from 2,531 in 2021. In this current season, nearly 33% of the total games started by FBS players have come from players who have transferred via the portal, according to SportSource Analytics. At quarterback, a position that has seen plenty of movement via the portal, 54.9% of the passing yards thrown this season have come via transfer players.

That means there have been some major contributions from players on new teams.

While some positions, like receiver and QB, have seen a lot of high-profile, instant-impact transfers, we identified those players from each position who transferred this past offseason and are in their first year with their new program to create the all-transfer team.

Transferred from: Jackson State

Sanders has taken college football by storm this season, throwing for a school-record 510 yards and four touchdowns in the season opener against TCU. He hasn't slowed down and is currently second among all FBS quarterbacks in passing yards with 1,251 and No. 4 in completion percentage, completing 78.7% of his passes.

«He's been consistent, the same guy, and that's what I love about him. He's rock steady, he doesn't allow the attention and focus and the lights to deter him or lead him in a certain direction,» Colorado coach Deion Sanders said of Shedeur. «He analyzes everything on and off the field. That's something that you want from a quarterback, you want to know their lifestyle, how