Regardless of your support or animosity towards the freedom of players to transfer at will, everyone – with maybe the exception of someone taking on a rebuild job at a crappy program – can and should agree
that the constant roster overhauling that is part and parcel of today’s college sports landscape sucks. The entire NIL landscape throws an even larger wrench into the process, and there’s unfortunately no easy fix as potential lawsuits that will undoubtedly come from any changes to the current structure create stagnation.
That’s not for us fans to worry about, though. No, let’s focus on the roster churn!
Here are the transfer portal entries from NC State’s 2025 football team (starters in bold, production listed where applicable):
- DL Josh Alexander-Felton, rFR
- DL Justin Terrell, rFR
- LB Elijah Groves, rFR
- LB Kelvon McBride, rSO (5 tackles, 0.0 TFL, 0.0 sacks)
- OL Val Erickson, rJR
- OL Brock Stukes, JR
- RB Hollywood Smothers, rSO (939 rush yds, 6 rush TDs; 189 rec yds, 1 rec TD)
- S Daemon Fagan, rSO (1 tackle)
- S Rente Hinton, rSR
- S Zack Myers, rSO (4 tackles)
- WR Terrell Anderson, SO (39 rec, 629 rec yds, 5 rec TD)
- WR Tank Boston, rFR (2 rec, 11 rec yds, 0 TD)
- WR Noah Rogers, rSO (33 rec, 441 rec yds, 2 rec TD)
- WR Christian Zachary, rFR
