Cal quarterback Chandler Rogers enters the transfer portal

The California Golden Bears senior looks to have earned a final year of eligibility to try and start at one more football program.

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More moves in the Cal quarterbacking room. Chandler Rogers will be entering the transfer portal. Pete Nakos of On3 had the initial report.

Rogers was initially out of eligibility, so his departure was expected from Berkeley, but a recent ruling for athletes with junior college years allowed players like Rogers an additional year to play college football. Because of that ruling it appears Chandler will thus get a chance to play football elsewhere.

Rogers was brought in from North Texas to compete for the starting quarterback position with Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza would end up winning the job and starting for nearly the entirety of the season, until sickness sidelined him against SMU and he then transferred after the season. Rogers started at the Mustangs, and played for most of the first half before an injury ended his season.

Rogers’s most notable contributions at Cal came with his legs. He entered the 4th quarter in relief for Mendoza when he was injured at Auburn and picked up a critical first down. Rogers came in on the final drive against Stanford and clinched it with a first down run. He also scored a rushing touchdown against Miami to put the Bears up 35-10 in the third quarter.

The Bears now have three confirmed scholarship quarterbacks on campus for this spring: CJ Harris, E.J. Caminong and incoming freshman Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, who transferred from Oregon after a long saga.

With two scholarship quarterbacks out and one scholarship quarterback in, you have to feel the Bears will likely pursue at least one more QB in the transfer portal to ensure as open a quarterback competition as possible this spring.