Ex-Florida QB Jalen Kitna enters college football transfer portal

One-time Florida Gators quarterback Jalen Kitna has entered the college football transfer portal ahead of the 2023 football season, according to On3 Sports.

A former three-year recruit in the 2021 football recruiting class, Kitna was a top-50 quarterback and is the son of former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna.

Kitna played in four games last season, completing 10 of 14 pass attempts and a touchdown against Eastern Washington.

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Florida is left with four quarterbacks on the roster: Wisconsin transfer Graham Mertz, redshirt sophomore Jack Miller, freshman Parker Leise, and graduate Micah Leon.

College football transfer portal

The NCAA Transfer Portal is a private database that includes the names of student-athletes in every sport at the Division I, II, and III levels. The full list of names is not available to the public.

A player can enter their name into the transfer portal through their school's compliance office. Once a player gives written notification of their intent to transfer, the office puts the player's name into the database, and they officially become a transfer.

The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player's request and NCAA rules forbid anyone from refusing that request.

The database includes the player's name, contact information, info on whether the player was on scholarship, and if he is a graduate student.

Once a player's name appears in the transfer portal database, other schools are free to contact the player, who can change his mind at any point in the process and withdraw from the transfer portal.

Notably, once a player enters the portal, his school no longer has to honor the athletic scholarship it gave him. And if that player decides to leave the portal and return to his original school, the school doesn't have to give him another scholarship.

(On3)

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