After visiting the Tar Heels in early September, Rolesville High School (N.C.) junior edge rusher Zavion Griffin-Haynes committed to then-UNC football head coach Mack Brown. But soon after the program parted ways with the 73-year-old in late November, the 6-foot-6, 220-pound four-star backed out his pledge.

NC State football head coach Dave Doeren and his staff needed to secure a few quality linebackers from this year's portal. Now, as of Friday evening, they've landed two, as one-year Alabama player Sterling Dixon joined another recent pledge,

The new reality of college football is that every major program is going to suffer significant transfers after each season. For the second straight year, portal departures hit the Alabama Crimson Tide pretty hard,