Kentucky football transfer portal tracker: Frederick Douglass alum Dekel Crowdus leaving
With the 2023 Kentucky football regular season finished, transfer portal season is upon us.
The winter portal window does not officially open until Dec. 4, but players who have already graduated can enter the portal at any time. Players can also enter the portal after a coaching change at their current school.
In the coming days, Kentucky is expected to lose several players to the portal. Most of those defections will be from a group that is looking for a larger role at a different program, but several Wildcats stars could also receive back channel interest from powerhouse programs.
The Wildcats’ transfer movement began on Nov. 27 with senior safety Jalen Geiger entering the portal. You can bookmark this page to keep track of the outgoing Kentucky transfers throughout the offseason.
WR Dekel Crowdus
Once viewed as a key piece in the future of Kentucky’s offense, Crowdus was never able to recover from a season-ending knee injury he suffered during preseason camp as a freshman. By the time he returned to the field in 2021, Kentucky had added wide receivers Barion Brown, Dane Key and Tayvion Robinson to the roster. In two seasons as a backup to those players, Crowdus, a Lexington native and former Frederick Douglass High School standout, totaled four catches for 82 yards. He did not catch a pass this season while appearing in 10 games.
NG Jamarius Dinkins
After playing only sparingly for most of his first two seasons on campus, Dinkins emerged as a rotation piece on the defense line late in the 2022 season as a redshirt freshman. He played a key role in a goal-line stop against No. 1 Georgia then recorded his first sack a week later against Louisville. Dinkins was blocked from a larger role in 2023 though when Kentucky signed former five-star recruit Keeshawn Silver in the transfer portal at his position. As a sophomore, Dinkins totaled nine tackles with one tackle for loss in 11 games.
S Jalen Geiger
A graduate transfer, Geiger’s Kentucky career was derailed by injuries. He appeared in 35 games with four starts across five seasons. Geiger opened the 2023 season as one of Kentucky’s starting safeties, but he suffered a season-ending patella tendon injury in his left knee in Week 2. By the time Geiger returned to the field in 2023, Jordan Lovett had taken over his starting job. Geiger totaled nine tackles in 10 games this season. Geiger was limited for much of the second half of the season by an arm injury. He scored two touchdowns in his UK career, one on an interception in 2021 and another on a fumble recovery in the 2023 season opener.
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