Which Dayton-area high school grads are in the college football transfer portal?

The 6-foot-4, 326-pound Tyo was a two-year starter for the Cardinals. He made the All-MAC third team this season and reportedly is on the radar of Ohio State, a team in need of linemen for next season, after entering the transfer portal.

Tyo was an All-Ohio offensive lineman in 2021 when the Tigers won the Division V state championship and signed with the Cardinals as a three-star recruit. He also wrestled and was on the track and field team at Versailles.

Five Springfield grads are also among those entering the portal: Te’Sean Smoot, Bryce Schondelmyer, Isaiah Gibson, Anthony Brown-Stephens and Larry Stephens.

Stephens caught 25 passes for 326 yards and two touchdowns in four seasons at Toledo and entered the portal as a graduate transfer.

A four-star prospect in the class of 2023, Brown-Stephens caught five passes for 77 yards and two touchdowns this season at Kentucky after catching five passes for 44 yards and a touchdown last season as a true freshman.

Smoot led the Wildcats to their first state championship game as a senior in 2021 and signed with Jacksonville State as a three-star prospect. He appeared in four games in his first two seasons but none this year as the Gamecocks won the Conference USA championship under head coach Rich Rodriguez, who is reportedly set to return to West Virginia as head coach this week.

Schondelmyer, who replaced Smoot as Springfield’s starter in 2022 after three standout seasons at Arcanum, did not appear in a game for Youngstown State and has three years of eligibility remaining.

Also entering the portal already are two players who began their careers at the University of Cincinnati, transferred somewhere else and are on the move again: Trotwood-Madison cornerback Sammy Anderson, who spent this season at Austin Peay, and Alter defensive tackle Derrick Shepard Jr., who played at UAB in 2024.

Jyaire Brown, a cornerback from Lakota West who began his career at Ohio State before transferring to LSU last year, is also back in the portal.

Transferring for the first time are Badin defensive back Braedyn Moore (Wisconsin), Lakota West defensive lineman Andre Proffitt (Akron) and Stebbins receiver Adrian Norton (Akron).

Moore and Proffitt saw little action this season, but Norton made the All-MAC second team after catching 43 passes for 831 yards and seven touchdowns.