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Message: [QUOTE="SUDadx2, post: 3941467, member: 8174"] Good question. This is tricky. Covid and the transfer portal have really made this difficult to project. Any player who is three years removed from high school could enter the NFL draft. This means any player who graduated in 2019 or earlier could leave. Of course this would usually only apply to studs who project to actually get drafted. But, we currently have more than 40 players on the roster who are at least three years removed from high school (Class of 2019). Syracuse currently has close to 25 players who have been in college for four years or more, thus should be getting close to graduating. Of course many of them cold graduate and still have eligibility on the clock because of the extra year given due to Covid. [LIST] [*][B][I]QUESTION:[/I][/B][I] If a players graduate in four years, but still has eligibility remaining, is the school obligated to expend the player's scholarship beyond the four year?[/I] [LIST] [*]Syracuse has more than a dozen players that fit this description. [LIST] [*]Coaches may want to keep some. [*]Coaches may [I]not[/I] want to keep some. [*]Some will choose to enter the portal as grad transfers. [*]Some may choose to take their degree and walk away leaving eligibility on the table. [/LIST] [/LIST] [/LIST] Syracuse currently has a large number of players who according to the NCAA are freshmen with three years of eligibility remaining after this season. [LIST] [*]10 RS-Fr from the 2019 class (also NFL eligible after this season; G. Williams, M. Jones, Bergeron) [*]25 Fr from the 2020 class. Thank you Covid [*]20 Fr from the 2021 class. [LIST] [*]Many of the 25 Fr will be redshirted if possible in order to create separation between the classes and prevent an unmanageable bubble from hitting the program in a couple years. [*]Some of these freshman will hit the transfer portal after they find themselves buried in the depth chart. How many? That could be the $64,000 question. [I](How do you fill behind an opening you cant predict?)[/I] [/LIST] [/LIST] Okay, so with all of this unknown who should we focus on for 2022? 25 scholarships per year. [LIST] [*]OL; 5-6: 4-5 Fr + 1 xfer [*]QB: 1 [*]WR; 3 [*]HB; 2-3: 2 Fr + a transfer [*]DL; 5: 3 freshmen + 2 transfers (need a big NG; 1 Fr, 1 xfer) [*]LB; 3-4, need to RS 3 guys this year. [*]DB; 4-5, including 1 xfer [/LIST] That's 23-27 players. We can probably easily sign more than 30 guys in 2022. Remember, most of the players from the 2021 class who reported for the spring semester last year count against the 2020 class not the 2021 class. and, anyone who reports early before spring 2022 could possiblt be counted as part of the 2021 class. [I][/I] [/QUOTE]

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