Before his freshman season at Ohio State was even over, Kyle McCord’s Twitter and Instagram accounts became inundated with messages from fans of other schools encouraging him to transfer to their teams.
In the modern world of college football, it wasn’t unreasonable for people to think McCord might look for an opportunity to play somewhere else in 2022 rather than wait his turn behind C.J. Stroud for another year. After all, that’s exactly what Quinn Ewers decided to do after just four months at Ohio State.
McCord, however, says he never considered entering the transfer portal this offseason.