{"id":745255,"date":"2026-02-11T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745255\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:27:32","slug":"syracuse-football-the-athletic-gives-the-orange-a-b-portal-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745255\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse football: The Athletic gives the Orange a B- portal grade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Syracuse Orange didn\u2019t add any big names in the transfer portal and while that has left fans wondering if Fran Brown failed to reload, The Athletic feels<\/a> that the Orange did enough good last month.<\/p>\n

In a ranking of ACC schools, Syracuse was given a B- grade as The Athletic pointed out that the Orange lost 28 players with 7,234 career snaps and replaced them with 18 players with 10,249 career snaps. It\u2019s an interesting stat as it shows that Syracuse may have lost potential, but might have added experience and stability. I think the jury is out on the offensive line as that\u2019s one position where the Orange only added one new transfer.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what The Athletic had to say:<\/p>\n

Fran Brown lost quarterback Steve Angeli to a knee injury and proceeded to lose eight straight games to end the season. He didn\u2019t mess around with the position this cycle, signing three quarterbacks, including Odom, who led Kennesaw State to the 2025 Conference USA championship. Adding Weaver (45 catches, 642 yards) and Meyers (32 catches, 357 yards) helps relieve the sting a little of losing top receivers Darrell Gill Jr. and Johntay Cook II to Ole Miss. It\u2019s on defense, though, where Brown and general manager Tommy Caporale did their best work, adding four former FBS starters to a unit that struggled mightily in 2025.<\/p>\n

Four ACC teams landed in The Athletic\u2019s ranking of the top 20 classes in the country, and Syracuse was tied for 7th-best grade. Here is how the rest of the ACC were graded:<\/p>\n

What transfer are you most excited to see in action next year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Syracuse Orange didn\u2019t add any big names in the transfer portal and while that has left fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,8651],"class_list":{"0":"post-745255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-syracuse-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116053177154399042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745255","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=745255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}