5 most underrated additions from college football transfer portal

The college football transfer portal is a key source of players and here are five additions that will have a big impact on the 2022 college football season. 

The college football transfer portal is becoming an even greater force in the sport and is going to have a major impact on the 2022 season.

Thousands of college football players have entered the transfer portal and hundreds of them have found new homes including numerous that were ranked as four or five-star recruits in high school as well as in 247 sports transfer portal rankings.

As usual, the quarterbacks have stolen all or most of the headlines when it comes to the college football transfer portal this offseason, but outside of guys like Quinn Ewers, Caleb Williams, Jaxson Dart, and Spencer Rattler, there are a bunch of others who will make immediate impacts.

That’s the beauty of the transfer portal, it’s the closest thing there is to free agency, and looking ahead to the 2022 season, here are the five most underrated additions from the college football transfer portal, at least up to this point.

(Note: All of these players are ranked outside the top 10 according to 247 sports)

5. Brandon Joseph, Notre Dame

Over the past two seasons, Brandon Joseph had intercepted nine passes playing cornerback and safety at Northwestern and was the Big Ten cornerback of the year as well as an All-American in 2020, when he picked off six passes as he helped Northwestern win the Big Ten West.

Joseph was a top transfer portal target, following another three-interception season and with Notre Dame losing Kyle Hamilton to the NFL, the Irish need a big-time playmaker on the backend and few players in college football are more proven in that area than Joseph.

No. 14 was a quality ranking but he’s going to outplay it in terms of the impact he will make next season. I’m expecting him to be one of the most productive transfers in all of college football.