The college football transfer portal is largely dormant headed into the summer. The FBS window for football officially closed Jan. 16 and most of the top unsigned players have now found a home. But another sport is providing an intriguing avenue for potential football additions for teams as summer approaches — track.
While football players aren’t allowed to enter the portal at this time, track athletes can do so. And a few runners are taking advantage of that to run both track and play football at their next school. UCLA quarterback Karson Gordon entered the portal last week as a track athlete but intends to play football at his next school.
Now, Georgia track athlete Maurice Gleaton Jr. is doing the same.
Gleaton is in the transfer portal and is looking for a school where he can run track and play football, a source tells 247Sports.
The 5-foot-10 freshman was one of the fastest high schoolers in the country last year. He ran a wind-aided 9.82-second 100-meter dash last June and finished sixth in the 100-meters last summer at the USA Track and Field Championships with a time of 9.92 seconds, which was an American under-20 record.
That’s a lot of speed, and some football teams are interested.
