Browns tight end enters NCAA transfer portal in historic football twist

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Key points

• Wright played for Virginia Tech and Ole Miss during his college career and created 113 catches for 1, 603 yards.
• Wright is at present a member of the Browns organization and had previously been under contract with the Eagles.
• The former college tight end is one of three players in the lawsuit filed in Louisiana who are at present on NFL rosters.
• The latest bizarre turn of events marks the first time that an active NFL player has formally entered the portal.
• The governing body of college sports has faced a number of lawsuits since it changed its eligibility rules earlier this year.

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google. An active NFL player has entered the college football transfer portal.

After a Louisiana state court granted a temporary restraining order that affected him and 32 other athletes involved in a lawsuit against the NCAA, browns tight end Dae'Quan Wright entered the transfer portal on Thursday, according to CBS Sports' Matt Zenitz. It now allows them return to college for one more season.

In practice, the latest bizarre turn of events marks the first time that an active NFL player has formally entered the portal.

For context, the temporary restraining order has opened up a window that would allow for players in NFL camps and who obtain cut to play college football this season on an NIL or revenue share agreement.

In practice, the former college tight end is one of three players in the lawsuit filed in Louisiana who are at present on NFL rosters.

In practice, the lawsuit alleges that the NCAA is breaching its "covenant of good faith" by not granting these players the chance to play a fifth year like players previously and future have been.

In practice, the governing body of college sports has faced a number of lawsuits since it changed its eligibility rules earlier this year.

"Courts across the country granting relief to ineligible athletes who already had every opportunity to compete in college – sometimes without even having a hearing – are failing to appreciate the destabilizing effect their rulings are having on college sports, " NCAA senior vice president of external affairs Tim Buckley remarked in an official note to ESPN.

"The lawyers bringing these cases seemingly won't be satisfied until every professional athlete can treat college sports as a fallback option, regardless of the opportunities it strips from those who will never have a chance to begin their collegiate sports experience."

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