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It speaks to the settled nature of the Cal football team four days before its season opener against Nevada that the big news Tuesday involved a running back who carried the ball 21 times last season being dropped a spot on the depth chart. Coach Justin Wilcox, looking forward to the Bears' first game with fans in the stands since 2019, chuckled at the annual curiosity over the Week 1 depth chart.

Sophomore Damien Moore is listed as the starting running back, ahead of senior Christopher Brooks, who two years ago rushed for 914 yards. But while the pandemic complicated the Bears' 2020 season, it was a chronic shoulder injury that limited the game reps of Brooks, who legally changed his name this spring from Christopher Brown Jr. "They're both going to play," Wilcox said. "I know the depth chart is highly anticipated but in my mind they're both starters. It's going to be spread out at that position and we're fortunate enough to have more than one guy at that position." Wilcox said he expects a big season from Brooks, who is healthy and has performed well in camp. But Moore continues to turn heads after rushing for 121 yards against Stanford as a freshman last fall. - Oakland Tribune

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RB Damien Moore, Transfer
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08/31/21 - Mycah Pittman, rSr/2026, Transfer, 5-11, 195 (DS#999 WR) + More +

Expectations have been high for Mycah Pittman from the day he arrived at Oregon. The third-year sophomore may finally be able to reach them in what he and the Ducks hope is a full season for the wide receiver. Pittman might have the greatest potential and pro prospects of Oregon's returning receivers, but he's rarely gotten to show it so far. He enters 2021 with 26 catches for 350 yards and two touchdowns over two seasons, with 12 games played and nine games missed, and it's actually closer to an even split. A broken collarbone sidelined him for the first four games in 2019, when he later broke his forearm and missed three more games. Pittman officially missed two games last season due to contact tracing, though he barely played against Oregon State.

"That first camp of his he was lights out," Oregon coach Mario Cristobal said. "I'll never forget it was this particular practice (after the second fall scrimmage) two years ago he injured his shoulder. I remember leaving that practice it felt like we had lost a game; that's how devastating it was because he was playing so well. "He's healthy, he's focused, he's locked in, motivated, he takes the hard coaching and (receivers coach Bryan) McClendon, he does the best job of anyone in the country at wide receiver. Those two have formed a really good bond and Mycah wants to be great, he wants to be pushed and he's getting a full dose of it. He's been extremely productive, he's made explosive plays, he's become a gritty player. Always had that in him but now he's doing it in the running game as well. Expecting a huge year out of him." - The Oregonian

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WR Mycah Pittman, Transfer
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08/31/21 - Avantae Williams, rSr/2025, Transfer, 5-11, 198 (DS#999 SS) + More +

In his first comments to reporters since Avantae Williams was reinstated, Miami Hurricanes coach Manny Diaz said the second-year safety will be out for the team's first six games of the season, which starts Saturday against Alabama at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. "Avantae hasn't practiced, run or done anything physically," Diaz said Monday. "He's just going to work with our strength and conditioning staff for the next two weeks. It'd be unfair to dunk him right into the middle of practices. The guy did miss a training camp. We have to take that into account."

The Hurricanes officially reinstated Williams on Sunday after the felony charges that resulted in his dismissal were dropped on Aug. 20. Williams was dismissed from the program on July 22 after he was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated battery against his pregnant ex-girlfriend earlier that week, according to Miami-Dade County's arrest records. Aggravated battery on a pregnant woman is a felony in Florida. A copy of the arrest affidavit from July stated Williams got into a "verbal dispute" with his ex-girlfriend on July 21 before telling her to leave the apartment they lived in together. - Sun Sentinel

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SS Avantae Williams, Transfer
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08/27/21 - Avantae Williams, rSr/2025, Transfer, 5-11, 198 (DS#999 SS) + More +

Avantae Williams will be a Miami Hurricane again. Thirty-five days after the University of Miami dismissed Williams from the football program because of allegations of domestic violence against his former girlfriend, and six days after Miami-Dade prosecutors declined to press charges, Williams' attorney said he was informed that Williams will be reinstated to UM. Williams initially met with UM officials to discuss the situation Wednesday via Zoom. He was expected to arrive back in Miami on Thursday from near his home in DeLand. UM classes began this past Monday. Williams, 20, was rated the nation's No. 1 safety by Rivals.com in the 2020 recruiting class. He sat out his first season in 2020 because of an undisclosed medical issue, but was set to play this season, which begins Sept. 4 against No. 1 Alabama. - Miami Herald

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SS Avantae Williams, Transfer
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08/22/21 - Arik Gilbert, rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-5, 275 (DS#999 TE) + More +

Arik Gilbert, considered an impact addition to the UGA football offense, wasn't at the team's first scrimmage Saturday. "Arik's dealing with some personal issues," coach Kirby Smart said. "We love him. We're thinking about him. We're trying to help him." The LSU transfer's absence raises the question of whether he will be available when No. 5 Georgia opens its season Sept. 4 against No. 2 Clemson. The former tight end was preparing to play wide receiver for the Bulldogs. "We hope to get him back soon," Smart said. Smart didn't get into specifics, but said Gilbert is in good hands having director of sports medicine Ron Courson and others to care for him.

"When you think about a medical staff like Ron Courson has, he has so much experience in dealing those issues," Smart said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with him right now as he deals with those personal issues." Safety Lewis Cine called Gilbert "as advertised," based on summer workouts. He was expected to bolster a receiving corps without star George Pickens who sustained a torn ACL this spring and missing for now Kearis Jackson who is still coming back from a knee scope and Jermaine Burton with a sprained ankle. Gilbert played in eight games for LSU as a true freshman, making 35 catches for 368 yards and two touchdowns. - Athens Daily Banner

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TE Arik Gilbert, Transfer
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08/21/21 - Bralyn Oliver, rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-2, 195 (DS#999 SS) + More +

Louisville lost a player to the transfer portal Friday. Freshman safety Bralyn Oliver announced Friday he has entered the transfer portal after arriving at Louisville in January. Oliver, a 6-foot-2 South Carolina native, was a three-star recruit in the 2021 recruiting class. He was expected to be paired with four-star Ben Perry at safety. Perry is still with the team, likely the backup strong safety this season, but Oliver's departure now leaves a whole in the depth chart. The Cardinals don't have a lot of depth at safety and with Oliver gone, it's likely Louisville will utilize corner Chandler Jones at safety this season. Josh Minkins is also still on the roster, but is battling back from a winter injury. - Courier Journal

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SS Bralyn Oliver, Transfer
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08/18/21 - DWan Mathis, rSr/2025, Transfer, 6-5, 200 (DS#999 WR) + More +

D'Wan Mathis has been vaunted for his ability to add a new dimension to Temple's offense. Much of the Owls' success this season will be predicated on the play of the 6-foot-6, 200-pound quarterback who transferred from Georgia. "The amount of explosive plays that D'Wan was able to create in a short amount of time in practice just jumped off the page from the moment we got going," quarterbacks coach Jake Landry said Tuesday. "For us, it's an athletic ability where he can extend plays. That's what stuck out the most to us right away." Temple coach Rod Carey had originally thought during spring camp that he might not declare a starting quarterback until late summer, expecting Mathis and Re-al Mitchell to battle it out. But he named Mathis the starter in late April.

Mathis was recruited out of Oak Park (Mich.) High School by the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, Iowa State, and Cincinnati before committing to Georgia. But he was forced to redshirt his freshman year after undergoing emergency brain surgery to clear the fluid buildup around a cyst. The following season, he made his first collegiate start in the Bulldogs' season-opening win at Arkansas. After Jake Fromm's departure for the NFL and Jamie Newman's decision to opt out of the 2020 season, Mathis had beaten out JT Daniels to be named the Week 1 starter. He has previously said that surgery forced him to relearn to talk and to walk. In his words, it gave him a "next-day mentality," focusing on getting better each day while not dwelling on one bad practice. - Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News

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WR DWan Mathis, Transfer
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08/17/21 - Aaron Willis, rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-0, 220 (DS#999 OLB) + More +

Aaron Willis' debut at Tennessee football practice took four months longer than expected. But the Vols' top-rated signee in their 2021 class has made an impression through the first week of preseason practices. "He has been a pleasant surprise so far this camp," linebackers coach Brian Jean-Mary said Tuesday. Willis enrolled early at Tennessee as a four-star linebacker and the No. 137 prospect in the nation, according to the 247Sports Composite. He was suspended during spring football for his role during a March incident at Stokely Hall, delaying his start with the Vols.

Willis returned to UT team activities in June, but lagged behind his teammates physically. "His biggest issue was without playing (much in) that COVID year, he really set himself behind just conditioning-wise," Jean-Mary said. "He had to get his body back into playing shape. I feel like he had a good summer." The 6-foot-1, 225-pound Willis transferred to Life Christian Academy in Chester, Virginia, from St. Frances Academy in Baltimore. As an early enrollee at UT, Willis would not have been able to play his senior season due to high school football in Maryland being postponed until the spring. - Knoxville News Sentinel

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OLB Aaron Willis, Transfer
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08/07/21 - Arik Gilbert, rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-5, 275 (DS#999 TE) + More +

George Pickens was the top target down the stretch with back-to-back 100-yard plus receiving games, but he's sidelined after ACL surgery. LSU transfer Arik Gilbert joins a pass-catching group that includes receivers Kearis Jackson, Jermaine Burton and Arian Smith, 6-foot-7, 280-pound Darnell Washington and John Fitzpatrick at tight end and running back James Cook. That's before we even get to spring game star receiver Adonai Mitchell. "There's more guys on this team than you normally see that can be in the game that's no different than your 1s," Daniels said.

Georgia is giving the 6-foot-5, 248-pound Gilbert the chance to play wide receiver like he wanted, but how that translates to practice will be telling. "We don't get a chance to be on the field with him in the position conditioning stuff so we're going to have to find that out in fall camp," Smart told WJOX in Birmingham. "He's bigger than your average wideout certainly." Gilbert worked this summer with both receivers coach Cortez Hankton and tight ends coach Todd Hartley, according to Daniels. "He takes time to learn the signals and picks it up really well," Daniels said. "He's got the skillset to play a lot of positions in the game of football. You try out and put your playmakers where they have the best chance to make plays. Wherever that is for him I'm sure they'll figure it out." - Athens Daily Banner

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TE Arik Gilbert, Transfer
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07/25/21 - Avantae Williams, rSr/2025, Transfer, 5-11, 198 (DS#999 SS) + More +

Avantae Williams is no longer a Miami Hurricane. On the same day University of Miami coach Manny Diaz and his three star players were repping the new and improved Hurricanes at the Atlantic Coast Conference Football Kickoff, one of their top young safeties was arrested and jailed. The Hurricanes announced Thursday evening that Williams "has been dismissed from the football program." UM released a statement earlier Thursday that the second-year freshman Williams, 20, who didn't play last season because of a medical issue, was arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Court records show he was charged with aggravated battery on a pregnant victim. He was booked into a Miami-Dade jail late Wednesday, and remained there until posting bond Thursday afternoon. According to a police report obtained by the Herald, Williams' arrest stemmed from an argument with his child's mother, who is also 31 weeks pregnant with his baby. The two had been living together in West Kendall, although they are "ex-girlfriend/boyfriend," the report said. The two got into an argument Wednesday over Williams "being involved with another woman," the report said. "When I return from practice you need to be gone," he allegedly told the woman. - Miami Herald

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SS Avantae Williams, Transfer
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07/23/21 - Arik Gilbert, rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-5, 275 (DS#999 TE) + More +

One of the big topics of discussion for Georgia on Tuesday was the team's use of the transfer portal. Few teams were as busy as the Bulldogs this offseason in regards to the portal, as Georgia added three highly-touted players in LSU tight end Arik Gilbert, Clemson cornerback Derion Kendrick and West Virginia safety Tykee Smith. Smart was asked about his prior insistence of only using the portal when a true need is present, and he explained how each of those players fit the bill. "The first two, the defensive backs, we're under our scholarship quota of defensive backs. We had two guys come out early, two guys come out of the portal. We're at a deficit just from scholarship numbers, not to mention experience. Those two guys bring an immense amount of experience," Smart said. "With Arik, anytime you can get a skill player that can do things with the ball, you're always looking to be dynamic. You look at teams that have won the national championship recently: they're most dynamic on offense and at the skill positions." - Opelika-Auburn News

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TE Arik Gilbert, Transfer
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07/22/21 - Arik Gilbert, rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-5, 275 (DS#999 TE) + More +

Monday, but a new addition to its roster should be heard from in a big way in the years to come, according to his former coach. LSU coach Ed Orgeron said Arik Gilbert, who played his freshman season for the Tigers, has big things ahead of him. "I think he's going to be an All-Pro tight end, an All-American and has a chance to be a first round draft choice," Orgeron said Monday at SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham-The Wynfrey Hotel. The Bulldogs are actually listing Gilbert as a wide receiver. He could be an answer at the X wide receiver position where George Pickens played, but whose season is in question after sustaining a torn ACL this spring.

Gilbert came to LSU with huge expectations as a five-star prospect but opted out after eight games. The 6-foot-5, 248 pounder had 35 catches for 368 yards and two touchdowns last season for the Tigers. Orgeron said after Gilbert opted out that he hoped he'd return to the Tigers. Gilbert committed to Florida but backed off that pledge and enrolled at Georgia in June. "We wish Arik the best," Orgeron said. "He's an outstanding young man. His momma's a great lady." - Athens Daily Banner

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TE Arik Gilbert, Transfer
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07/07/21 - Derick Mourning Jr., rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-3, 224 (DS#999 ILB) + More +

Arizona's linebacker room continues to be in a state of flux. After an offseason filled mostly with acquisitions, the Wildcats could lose second-year freshman Derick Mourning, who announced Wednesday that he has put his name in the NCAA transfer portal. Mourning, a three-star recruit from Katy, Texas, showed great promise in the spring, when he ran with the first-team defense at the "Mike" linebacker spot. Mourning (6-3, 234) appeared in all five of Arizona's games in 2020, including one start, recording 10 tackles and one pass breakup. Mourning would have had a chance to start in 2021, although the UA staff has beefed up the LB group via the portal. Arizona has added four linebackers. The incoming freshman class also features several 'backers. Mourning's decision comes after the July 1 deadline to ensure eligibility for the '21 season. If he wants to play elsewhere this year, he'll have to get a waiver. - Arizona Star News

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ILB Derick Mourning Jr., Transfer
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06/01/21 - Arik Gilbert, rSr/2026, Transfer, 6-5, 275 (DS#999 TE) + More +

After spending the 2020 season on the Bayou, former Marietta High School football star Arik Gilbert ultimately decided that home is where the heart is. Gilbert, a decorated recruit from Marietta's 2019 state championship team, announced Tuesday that he would be transferring to Georgia. "I believe it was a smart decision to come home," the 6-foot-5, 245-pound tight end told the Dawgs247 website. "I wanted to be with and near my family. I have been missing all of family and now both of my grandmothers will be able see me play in person, too." Gilbert comes to Athens from LSU, following a freshman season in which he had 368 yards and two touchdowns on 35 receptions over eight games. Gilbert, however, opted out of the remainder of the Tigers' season on Dec. 9.

Gilbert entered the transfer portal and initially transferred to Florida at the end of January, but he reconsidered and decommitted from the Gators about a month later. Gilbert was a sought-after recruit from programs around the nation before initially picking LSU in October 2019. It was part of a momentous senior season in which he had 102 receptions for 1,735 yards and 14 touchdowns during Marietta's run to the 2019 Class AAAAAAA state championship. - Marietta Daily Journal

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TE Arik Gilbert, Transfer
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05/25/21 - DWan Mathis, rSr/2025, Transfer, 6-5, 200 (DS#999 WR) + More +

The 2021 season opening football game between Temple and Rutgers has been changed from Saturday, September 4, to Thursday, September 2. This change was mutually agreed upon by both schools. The Owls will travel to Piscataway, N.J. to take on the Scarlett Knights in the first football matchup between the two school since 2013. Overall the teams have met 36 times with Rutgers holding a 21-15 advantage. The two teams were slated to meet in 2020 but the game was canceled. After a season and schedule wrecked by a global pandemic, Temple looks to get back to its winning ways in 2021. - Temple Football

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WR DWan Mathis, Transfer
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