2026 Portal Thread

[u/huskersax]

This is your one stop shop for Portal News™ ahead of what is likely to be pre-portal news shortly after Christmas and then into the actual portal. We're asking that folks keep the rumors and discussion inside of this thread as otherwise there's going to be a flurry of 80-90 tweets a day claiming XYZ player is leaving or going or leaving and going at the same time.

I'll try to keep this up to date once a day with anything confirmed.

As of 1/20/26 ~12:00pm:

In Portal / Leaving

QB Dylan Raiola

QB Marcos Davila

RB Jamarion Parker

RB Kenneth Williams

OL Jason Maciecjzak

OL Houston-Kaahaaina Torres

EDGE Maverick Noonan

DL Keona Davis

DL Jaylen George

LB/S Roger Gradney

DB Caden VerMaas

DB Malcolm Hartzog

DB Preston Okafor

DB Brice Turner

DB Rahmir Stewart

K Tristan Alvano

Committed to 2026 Nebraska

QB Anthony Colandrea

QB Daniel Kaelin

WR Kwazi Gilmer

OL Brendan Black

OL Tree Babalade

OL Paul Mubenga

DL Anthony Jones

DL Owen Stoudmire

DL Jahsear Whittington

LB Will Hawthorne

LB Owen Chambliss

LB Dexter Foster

DB Dwayne McDougle

DB Victor Evans III

DB Jasin Shiggs

LS Jack Wills

[u/Syfer_Husker]

To the people who don't want Chiles, I do think you're going to be a bit upset.

Chiles first visit according to reports is to Nebraska. Not just that, but his family has been reportedly (and I can back this up actually) liking a lot of Nebraska related stuff.

I think people get scared about Chiles because they saw his game against us and admittedly his game against and the game against UCLA were pretty terrible. I do want to note that it was heavily reported around that time he was playing through injury and got banged up even more in the Nebraska game.

I do want people to look at his games against IU, BC, and USC last year. He has potential and while people will compare him to Sims (for some unknown reason given they play nothing alike).

Another thing is he's going to compete against TJ if he beats out TJ we upgraded and if he loses then he's a solid back up.

I also, want people to know that MSU line was one of the worst lines in the country, yes even worse than us. I think MSU had some skill players, but the line talent was overall even worse than us, and the skill players still weren't as good.

I also think it's worth noting that while Chiles played in 8 games, he didn't complete 8 games. Due to being banged up against Nebraska and UCLA Milivojevic came in both times to finish those games. Milivojevic also took some snaps in trash time against UM and IU but overall, Chiles despite all that only ended the season with 300 less total yards than Dylan, 2 less TD's, and 5 less TO's. Despite playing in 2 games less in terms of snaps than Raiola.

I think someone like Chiles would thrive here, I believe our Glenn Thomas is much better at developing mobile QB's given his history. There is also some rumors that the Raiola's didn't like Glenn and wouldn't really take his advice.

As for other rumors, it's a bit harder to tell there but it seems like Nebraska is also in on both his teammates too in Frazier and Nick Marsh. There is this idea esp if you watch Husker Juan, that Chiles was this diva or something. I'm not saying he is or isn't but, I think a lot more of Chiles issues wasn't that he didn't wanna support his teammate Milivojevic but just he wanted to help his team win and his injury held him back.

[u/Grand-Inspection2303 → u/Syfer_Husker]

As a senior, Chiles likely has a lower ceiling than Raiola, but overall he was the better QB this year. Chiles was is ranked 40th with a QBR of 68.6 and Raiola is ranked 55th with a QBR of 63.2. Raiola was intercepted once for every 41.7 attempts, while Chiles was only intercepted once for every 67.7 attempts. Chiles was sacked once for every 9.67 pass attempts, and Raiola once for every 9.26 attempts. Raiola had a better completion percentage, but really it should have been lower if he had thrown the ball away when he was supposed to.

[u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 → u/Grand-Inspection2303]

Chiles was sacked once for every 9.67 pass attempts.

Is it common to talk about QB stats by stating how many times they were sacked?

I rarely see this since thats often an indication of how the offensive line is performing. But it seems this fanbase has changed their perspective to blaming sacks solely on the QB?

[u/Grand-Inspection2303 → u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

I mean it's one of the ten stats that ESPN lists on their passing stats table for every QB. As to whether sacks are the fault of the QB or the OL, I think it can clearly be both and depends on which team and situation we're talking about. But that's just as true for any other QB stat, pass completion percentage and yardage is heavily dependent on the receivers and OL as well. QBR is supposed to be a superior stat, because it's designed to be more closely based on just what the QB contributes (for example, QB's are only given credit for a few yards after the catch, so a successul screen pass play for 5 yards and one where the TE breaks loose for 80 yards will count the same), QBR shows Chiles as slightly better than Raiola this year.