{"id":658598,"date":"2026-01-06T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658598\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:13:11","slug":"college-football-transfer-portal-tracker-usfs-byrum-brown-heading-to-auburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658598\/","title":{"rendered":"College football transfer portal tracker: USF&#8217;s Byrum Brown heading to Auburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Minchey isn\u2019t headed to Lincoln after all.<\/p>\n<p>One day after initially committing to play at Nebraska next season, Minchey <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/college-football\/breaking-news\/article\/ex-notre-dame-qb-kenny-minchey-flips-commitment-to-from-nebraska-to-kentucky-after-just-1-day-023720728.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:flipped his commitment on Monday night;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" target=\"_blank\">flipped his commitment on Monday night<\/a>. He will now play for Kentucky and new head coach Will Stein next season instead, according to ESPN\u2019s Max Olson.<\/p>\n<p>Minchey played in six games for the Fighting Irish last season, and ended up throwing for 196 yards while completing just shy of 77% of his passes. The redshirt sophomore with two years of eligibility remaining entered the portal officially on Friday with hopes of becoming a starter in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s unclear what led to the flip, Stein has now landed a big name to help jumpstart the Wildcats next fall. Matt Rhule will have to head back to the drawing board to find Raiola\u2019s replacement, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny Minchey isn\u2019t headed to Lincoln after all. One day after initially committing to play at Nebraska next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6221,18684,67726,3039,380,7,49,48,1003,561,6776,4156],"class_list":["post-658598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-arizona-state","tag-dj-lagway","tag-drew-mestemaker","tag-dylan-raiola","tag-florida","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-nebraska","tag-oklahoma-state","tag-sam-leavitt","tag-transfer-portal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115848570734511846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}