Portal Roundup: RB Logan Diggs will reunite with Brian Kelly at LSU
The spring transfer portal window closed on April 30.
All football players at the FBS level wishing to enter the transfer portal — even graduates — needed to do so by May 1 in order to transfer to a new school for the 2023 season. Players in the portal did not have to make a transfer destination choice before that window closed.
Prior to the spring transfer portal window, Notre Dame football had seven players enter the transfer portal since the start of the 2022 season. The Irish also added commitments from seven transfer additions during that time. Details on those players can be found in this previous Portal Roundup.
Once the spring portal window opened, six more Notre Dame players entered the transfer portal. Inside ND Sports has tracked those entries below and is continuing to monitor where those players find a new home. The complete list since the start of the 2022 season can be found in our Notre Dame Football Transfer Portal Tracker.
Rivals also has a national Transfer Tracker with player rankings that will be constantly updated. The rankings for Notre Dame's additions and subtractions can be found here.
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Portal commitment (5/16): RB Logan Diggs to LSU
Junior running back Logan Diggs chose to return home. After making visits to Ole Miss, South Carolina and LSU, the Louisiana product committed Tuesday to play for the Tigers and former Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly. LSU's leading rusher last season was quarterback Jayden Daniels.
Portal commitment (5/13): OT Caleb Johnson to SMU
Junior offensive tackle Caleb Johnson announced Saturday that he'll continue his college football career at SMU.
The 6-foot-6, 295-pound Ocala, Fla. product left the team prior to spring practice starting on March 22 and officially entered the transfer portal on April 19. He'll have three years of eligibility with the Mustangs.
Portal entry (5/13): Walk-on TE/LB Barret Liebentritt to Nebraska
Junior walk-on Barret Liebentritt is going home and changing positions.
The 6-foot, 235-pound special teams contributor from Omaha. Neb., exited the transfer portal Saturday and will continue his college football career as a fullback with Nebraska.
Liebentritt positionally had practiced as a linebacker and tight end. He'll have two years of eligibility with the Cornhuskers.
Portal entry (4/29): Walk-on TE/LB Barret Liebentritt
After a season in which he played in all 13 games on Notre Dame kickoff return unit, junior-to-be Barret Liebentritt entered the transfer portal Saturday. Inside ND Sports confirmed Liebentritt appeared in the portal with a "do not contact" tag.
Liebentritt came to Notre Dame as a preferred walk-on out of Omaha (Neb.) Skutt Catholic, where he played linebacker and fullback and recorded 76 tackles, 604 rushing yards and eight touchdowns as a senior.
At Notre Dame the 6-foot, 235-pound Liebentritt was used positionally as a tight end and fullback.
Portal commitment (4/29): WR/CB Lorenzo Styles to Ohio State
Lorenzo Styles decided to make the same decision his father and younger brother both made before him: to play football at Ohio State. Eight days after the junior wide receiver/cornerback entered the transfer portal at Notre Dame, Styles announced a commitment to the Buckeyes.
Portal entry (4/27): Junior RB Logan Diggs
Notre Dame's transfer portal exodus continued Thursday in painful fashion with junior-to-be running back Logan Diggs entering portal. Diggs led the Irish in carries last season (165) but has long been flirting with the idea of leaving the Irish since he was a recruit. Diggs, who rushed for 820 yards and four touchdowns last year, missed the latter part of Notre Dame's spring practices with a lower body injury.
Portal commitment (4/27): QB Tyler Buchner to Alabama
The opportunity to follow offensive coordinator Tommy Rees to Alabama and play for a perennial national championship contender proved to be too much for quarterback Tyler Buchner to turn down. Buchner announced Thursday his commitment to the Crimson Tide, two days after entering the portal.
Portal entry (4/25): Junior QB Tyler Buchner
Sitting behind quarterback Sam Hartman in 2023 apparently wasn't the most appealing option for junior-to-be Tyler Buchner. Even though the Irish coaching staff insisted a quarterback competition was still ongoing, Saturday's Blue-Gold Game showed the gap between Hartman and Buchner.
Inside ND Sports confirmed Tuesday that Buchner entered the transfer portal with a "do not contact tag." That means Buchner will reach out to schools he's interested in and not the other way around. Buchner did leave the door open for a potential return to Notre Dame in a message he shared on social media.
Portal entry (4/24): Junior LB Prince Kollie
Junior-to-be Prince Kollie was confident in his ability to make a difference in Notre Dame's defense. The Irish coaching staff didn't seem to share that confidence in the linebacker's first two seasons. After a spring in which Kollie missed time with a concussion, he chose Monday to enter the transfer portal.
Portal entry (4/21): Junior WR/CB Lorenzo Styles
Junior-to-be Lorenzo Styles sounded fully invested in his position switch experiment from wide receiver to cornerback earlier this week. But now that switch will likely happen elsewhere.
Inside ND Sports confirmed he entered the transfer portal Friday, one day before Notre Dame's Blue-Gold Game.
Portal entry (4/19): Junior OL Caleb Johnson
Junior-to-be Caleb Johnson officially entered the transfer portal Wednesday after leaving the team prior to spring practice. The 6-foot-6, 295-pound offensive tackle couldn't find the field as a member of the same recruiting class as offensive tackles Joe Alt and Blake Fisher.
In Johnson's two seasons with the Irish, he played once, according to Notre Dame’s official stats: the 2022 regular season finale at USC. And that might not be accurate. Regardless, Johnson will have three seasons of eligibility remaining at his next destination.
Left tackle Alt and right tackle Fisher have the starting spots locked up for the immediate future despite the offensive line coach transition from Harry Hiestand to Joe Rudolph earlier this year.
Johnson, who Rivals ranked as the No. 31 offensive tackle in the 2021 class, flipped his commitment from Auburn to Notre Dame as a four-star recruit out of Ocala (Fla.) Trinity Catholic.
Two other rising juniors — cornerback Philip Riley and kicker Josh Bryan — who haven't been practicing with Notre Dame this spring will likely enter the transfer portal before the spring window ends as well.
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