Inside the Shift to a Portal Strategy and a Reworked Signing Day

SicEm365 Lead Recruiting Analyst and Co-Editor Grayson Grundhoefer details the Bears’ signing-day successes and failures, as well as the pivot to a transfer portal focus for the 2026 season.

What a turn of events we saw over the course of less than a week leading into National Signing Day. Baylor lost commitments from three blue-chip prospects as Jamarion Carlton flipped to Texas, Jamarion Vincent flipped to Michigan and Jordan Clay flipped to Washington.