Several former Louisiana high school stars are among the notable names already on the move during this opening days of the NCAA’s 2026 transfer portal.
Whether returning back closer to home or venturing farther for bigger opportunities, a slew of former local standouts will don new college uniforms this year.
Here’s a rundown of some of top names and where they’re landing in the nation’s annual game of musical chairs. We will work to keep this post updated as more information becomes available throughout January.
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OT Tyree Adams (St. Augustine):
LSU —> Texas A&M
The Tigers’ starting left tackle marks the second member of the offensive line room in Baton Rouge in 2025 to head to Texas A&M during this transfer portal window, joining left guard Coen Echols. After taking a redshirt in 2023, the 6-foot-7, 310-pound Adams started a combined 11 games the past two years — nine coming this fall, but a number brought by injuries each of the past two seasons. Before taking over the left tackle role on a more full-time capacity in 2025, he provided a versatile swingman in the rotation as a redshirt freshman in 2024 with snaps at all four tackle and guard positions behind the veteran core on that year’s team.
ATH Ju’Juan Johnson (Lafayette Christian):
LSU —> Syracuse
The former record-setting Lafayette Christian quarterback spent two seasons in Baton Rouge being shuffled between defensive back, quarterback and running back roles — finally getting his biggest opportunities at the last of those positions — before opting this winter for a change of scenery. Johnson played in 26 games for LSU, including one start this fall, and carried 48 times for 169 yards and two touchdowns, while catching 22 passes for 94 yards and another score. He committed Tuesday to Syracuse.
Johnson finished his high school career as the most prolific athlete in Louisiana history with 14,451 total yards and 171 total touchdowns and earned LSWA Class 4A All-State and Louisiana Mr. Football honors to cap his decorated career in which he helped lead the Knights to four straight title games.
DL Ahmad Breaux (Ruston):
LSU —> Kentucky
A bit of a Louisiana-to-Lexington pipeline may be brewing since former Louisiana Tech and LSU offensive coordinator Joe Sloan’s arrival at Kentucky this winter. The Wildcats proved a quick SEC pivot for Airline wide receiver Kenny Darby when Lane Kiffin took over in Baton Rouge and shook up the Tigers’ recruiting class in the days entering the early signing period. And this weekend they added another former north Louisiana high school star.
Breaux, a star on a loaded Ruston defense in 2023, finally the Bearcats get back over the hump in 2023 to the program’s first state championship since 1990 and was an early darling of home-state LSU’s 2024 freshman class as a season-long contributor in the defensive line rotation. The 6-foot-3, 278-pound athlete played in 13 games that year, including two starts, and wrapped up 17 tackles, including 1.5 for loss. But he saw that role plateau, if not slip back some, behind a transfer-heavy defensive front this fall with 12 appearances, no starts, 19 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and 0.5 sacks.
DB Javion White (Franklin Parish):
Tulane —> Houston
The former Franklin Parish star has reportedly signed with Houston and coach Willie Fritz, who was leading Tulane when White initially committed two and a half years ago. White appeared in 11 games, including two starts, as a freshman in 2024 with 11 tackles and an interception before a breakout sophomore campaign this fall as a full-time starter with 50 tackles, including 3.5 for loss, and three interceptions and a fumble recovery in 14 games as a key piece of the Green Wave’s conference-championship and College Football Playoff run.
RB Elijah “Bill” Davis (Riverside Academy):
Louisiana (Lafayette) —> Virginia Tech
As productive as any Louisiana native leaving the state this month for another opportunity, “the Bill-dozer” will make the leap to Virginia Tech after starring in the backfield in Lafayette. Davis signed with the Ragin’ Cajuns in 2023 as a recruiting steal after a prolific prep career at Riverside in which he racked up 4,999 yards and 65 touchdowns and a pair of LSWA all-state selections.
The 5-foot-9, 225-pound back redshirted as a freshman, but still appeared in five games and ran for 189 yards and three touchdowns before leading the team in rushing the past two years. He finished his time in Lafayette with 1,612 yards and 18 scores on 336 carries in 29 games. Virginia Tech was led on the ground this past fall by a 2025 transfer-portal find in Marcellous Hawkins, who arrived from Central Missouri and racked up 768 yards on 118 carries.
RB/ATH Jaylin Lucas (Terrebonne + Edna Karr):
Florida State —> Tulane
The one-time Tulane commitment will indeed have the opportunity to play some college ball uptown after a pledge Tuesday to return to the home-state Green Wave via the transfer portal. Lucas flipped to Indiana just before signing day in the 2022 recruiting cycle and enjoyed exciting moments during two seasons with the Hoosiers. “J-Luc” appeared in 24 games, rushed 123 times for 553 yards and five touchdowns, caught 51 passes for 330 yards and two scores and returned a combined 54 kicks and punts for 1,209 yards and three more end-zone trips. He suffered a season-ending injury early in his junior season at Florida State in 2024 before returning and appearing in 12 games this fall, but in a more limited capacity. He carried 27 times for 160 yards, caught 11 passes for 88 yards and returned a combined 12 kicks and punts for 239 yards.
DB Jahiem “Joker” Johnson (Hammond):
Tulane —> Arkansas
The now-former Tulane standout announced his commitment Tuesday evening to Arkansas. The speedy multisport and three-phase standout signed with the Green Wave in 2023 and worked his way up the depth chart from redshirting as a true freshman to playing a smaller role in 14 appearances in 2024 to being among the team’s top performers this fall with 42 tackles, four interceptions, 13 passes defensed and one forced fumble. Now he makes the leap to the SEC and will have the opportunity to play against home-state LSU later this year.
DB Michael Richard (Edna Karr):
Louisiana Tech —> Michigan State
“MikeMike” is making the leap the Power Four in Big Ten member Michigan State. The former Edna Karr standout earned his way onto the field and even into the starting lineup in Ruston as a true freshman in 2023 and didn’t much look back during three seasons with the Bulldogs. Richard appeared in 34 games and wrapped up 104 tackles, including 7.5 for loss, and intercepted three passes — all led by a career-year as a junior with 39 tackles, five tackles for loss and three interceptions this fall.
LB Tackett Curtis (Many):
Wisconsin —> Central Florida
Another former Louisiana Mr. Football decided on a new college home Tuesday as the hard-hitting Many product signed with Central Florida after two seasons at Wisconsin. Curtis capped a decorated prep career in 2022 with several superlative honors for a senior season in which he recorded 112 tackles, including 16 for loss and sick sacks, and intercepted three passes and rushed for 1,115 yards and 11 touchdowns to lead his Tigers to a second state championship in three years. He signed with USC in 2023 and played in 12 games, including eight starts, as a true freshman with 40 tackles, including four for loss and two sacks. Curtis played in 24 games in two seasons with the Badgers with 56 tackles, 2.5 for loss and a sack.
RB Jasper Parker (Archbishop Shaw):
Michigan —> Arkansas
The former Archbishop Shaw star will make his way back closer to home after seeing limited action as a freshman during a tumultuous season overall for Michigan. Parker, one of the highest-ranked prospects in Louisiana’s loaded 2025 running back class, appeared in six games this season for the Wolverines and carried 25 times for 93 yards and two touchdowns.
CB Ashton Stamps (Archbishop Rummel):
LSU —> Arizona State
Stamps will head west for a fresh start with the Sun Devils after falling out of LSU’s rotation early in the season and leaving the team in October to preserve a year of eligibility. The 6-foot, 190-pound cornerback signed with the home-state Tigers as a relatively under-the-radar, but promising prospect in 2023, but ended shouldering a heavy load early as a true freshman out of need at the position. He played 14 games, including 17 starts, during his first two college seasons and tallied 74 tackles, including 48 solo stops, and 16 pass breakups in that span before playing just limited time in three games early this past fall.
WR Omarion Miller (North Caddo):
Colorado —> Arizona State
The one-time LSU commitment during Ed Orgeron’s tenure in Baton Rouge before a coaching change sparked him ultimately landing in Boulder, Colo. is now on the move further west after more than 1,000 yards in three years with the Buffaloes. Miller played in 10 games as a freshman, but particularly exploded late with a seven-catch, 196-yard performance against USC in which he found the end zone for the first time in his college career. He totaled 450 yards and two scores on 21 receptions his first two seasons before making his big leap this fall as Colorado’s leading receiver with 808 yards and eight touchdowns on 45 catches in 11 games.
QB Zeon Chriss (Madison Prep):
Houston —> Tulane
The former state championship-winning Madison Prep star appeared poised over the weekend to return to Baton Rouge and finish his college career just down Scenic Highway from his old high school stomping grounds. But Tulane emerged early in the week as a new option and favorite and ultimately landed his signature Wednesday. Chriss signed with the Ragin’ Cajuns in 2022 and spent two seasons in Lafayette, appearing in 12 games, including six starts as a sophomore, and completing 111 of his 168 passes for 1,331 yards, 12 touchdowns and six interceptions and rushing for another six scores. He transferred to Houston and former Tulane coach Willie Fritz in 2024 and played in 17 games the past two seasons, including seven starts, and completed 93 of his 151 passes for 932 yards, five touchdowns and nine interceptions and rushing for another four scores.
WR Jaylon Domingeaux (Comeaux):
Southeastern Louisiana —> Wisconsin
The three-year starter made huge strides in production every year in Hammond up to an all-conference junior campaign this fall with team-highs of 52 catches for 857 yards and 11 touchdowns and averages of 16.5 yards per catch and 65.9 yards per game. Domingeaux wraps his career with the Lions with 106 receptions for 1,512 yards and 14 scores as he heads north to a Big Ten opportunity in Madison, Wisc.
WR Kylan Billiot (Terrebonne):
LSU —> James Madison
The highly ranked prospect in the 2024 class spent two season in Baton Rouge, making his lone appearance this fall against Southeastern Louisiana. The 6-foot-3, 193-pound athlete is a former two-sport star at Terrebonne with three years of eligibility remaining as he joins former Louisiana (Lafayette) coach Billy Napier and the new James Madison staff in Harrisonburg, Va.
EDGE Jonathan Bax (Edna Karr):
TCU —> Florida Atlantic
Bax signed with TCU as one of Louisiana’s higher-ranked prospects in 2023, appeared primarily on special teams during 10 games as a true freshman and then spent the past two seasons in the rotation with 20 tackles, including 2.5 for loss and one sack, in 25 games, along with two forced fumble and one recovery.
P John Hoyet Chance (Captain Shreve):
Louisiana Tech —> TCU
“Leg-a-tron” was a star in his specialist role this fall as a redshirt freshman in Ruston and has parlayed that performance into a Big-12 opportunity at nearby TCU, where former Louisiana Tech coach Sonny Dykes enters his fifth season. Chance, a former LSWA Class 5A all-state punter, boomed 66 kicks for an average of 47.3 yards this fall with 33 for 50-plus yards, a long of 72 yards and 28 downed inside the 20-yard line. He also kicked off 64 times for 57 touchbacks and finished 4-for-7 on field goals and 3-for-3 on extra-points.
WR Darren Morris (Southern Lab):
Southern —> Boise State
Speedy wide receiver Darren Morris will reportedly leave The Bluff for the final season of his college career with a commitment Tuesday afternoon to Boise State. The former Southern Lab star won a state championship with the Kittens in 2021 and then spent the past four years across the street with the Jaguars from a redshirt season in 2022 in which he saw limited action to three straight seasons with double-digit appearances and receptions and at least 200 yards and two scores. Morris wraps up his time at the hometown program with 1,111 yards and eight touchdowns on 74 catches in 35 games.
DB Anthony Richard Jr. (Lafayette Christian):
Southern Miss —> Memphis
The former Lafayette Christian standout and a sleeper prospect in the pandemic-disrupted 2021 recruiting cycle continued making his way up the college ranks with another move Monday. Richard spent two years at Harding, one at Northwestern State and one at Marshall before enjoying a career-best redshirt senior season this fall at Southern Miss with 31 tackles, including 0.5 for loss, and two interceptions and 10 passes defenses in 13 games.
OL Christian Martin (Destrehan):
Colorado State —> Illinois
The former state champion and all-district standout at Destrehan will make the leap to the Big Ten as part of a retooled Illinois offensive line this year. Martin spent the first three seasons of his college career working his way up the Colorado State depth chart from a redshirt 2023 season to 13 appearances primarily on special-teams and goal-line units in 2024 to starting 12 games this past fall as a redshirt sophomore.
K/P Aidan Parker (Sterlington):
Tulane —> Southeastern Louisiana
Parker, a standout in his specialist roles for perennial power Sterlington in recent years, spent this fall at Tulane and committed Wednesday to Southeastern Louisiana where he’ll head in hopes of more of an opportunity to get on the field.
WR Kolby Thomas (Calvary Baptist):
Louisiana Tech —> Southern Arkansas
“KT” capped his junior season with a state championship-winning touchdown in Caesars Superdome in 2023, then led the Cavaliers with an LSWA Class 2A all-state performance as a senior with 57 catches for 1,202 yards and 17 touchdowns. The quick-footed receiver redshirted this fall as a true freshman at Louisiana Tech, entered the transfer portal this winter and committed to nearby Southern Arkansas on visit Friday on the first day of the window.
WR Shazz Preston (St. James): Tulane —>
QB Rickie Collins (Woodlawn-Baton Rouge): Syracuse —>
WR JaVonnie Gibson (Opelousas): Oklahoma —>
DB Carl Williams IV (Southern Lab): Baylor —>
WR Destyn Hill (Edna Karr): LSU —>
RB Kaleb Jackson (Liberty Magnet): LSU —>
DB Caleb Ricks (St. Amant): Idaho —>
K Aeron Burrell (Parkway): LSU —>
S Austin Ausberry (University Lab): LSU —>
S Joel Rogers (West Feliciana): LSU —>
RB J.T. Lindsey (Alexandria): LSU —>
OL Landry Cannon (Destrehan): Tulane —>
S Landon Sylvie (Calvary Baptist): Southeast Missouri State —>
WR Ellis Stewart (Cecilia): Arkansas-Pine Bluff —>
WR John “Jay” Simon IV (Calvary Baptist): Louisiana Tech —>
CB Wallace Foster IV (Warren Easton): LSU —>
OL Khayree Lee Jr. (John Ehret): LSU —>
WR TaRon “ManChild” Francis (Edna Karr): LSU —>
DB Amyrion Mingo (Alexandria): Arkansas-Pine Bluff —>
OL Jayce Mitchell (Destrehan): Tulane —>
LB Princeton Malbrue (Lafayette Christian): LSU —>
