Losing athletes to the transfer portal is the norm in today’s collegiate athletics, but coaching changes can increase those losses dramatically as players seek other opportunities.

For Alabama, iconic head coach Nick Saban’s retirement opened the floodgates, as player after player elected not to continue under new head coach Kalen DeBoer. Between the winter and spring gateway periods, Alabama saw 39 scholarship and walk-on players leave the school. Despite those losses, DeBoer and his newly hired staff added 14 transfers to supplement the country’s second-ranked recruiting class as a new generation of talent arrives in Tuscaloosa.

To summarize all of the movement, below is a position-by-position summary that goes over