Cal Football TE Jake Tonges Enters the Transfer Portal
He enters it as a Graduate Transfer
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The stalwart TE1 enters the portal after playing at Cal. Entering as a walk on he developed into a modern TE1 option in the Cal offense playing as a Y as well as a slot receiver. His versatility allowed Cal to run 12 personnel looks but be able to reliably run plays designed for 11.
His play will be missed. Best of luck to him and Go Bears!
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W4C should write an article about this issue. Don' understand why Remigio is transferring. He got a lot of reps in past years and would have had more in the future, given lots of guys leaving through graduation, including ar WR, with no eligibility left, like Crawford. Also, had he stayed at Cal (which he still could do by removing himself from the portal) Remigio would have very likely would have continued his kickoff and punting return duties.
Factors which like explain why this is happening are 1) the Covid year which did not count as a year of playing but did not stop the clock on the normal graduation timeline, and 2) (related to 1), players using up their (likely one year) graduation certificate programs but still with playing time available due to Covid playing time extention rules.
Still, an article going through the pertinent factors and how they apply to certain specific situations would be interesting and helpful.
Good luck Jake! Bears fans, this is normal for grad transfers to occur. This happens. What won't be normal is if we see players with multiple years left, leave. Then we panic