{"id":495158,"date":"2026-01-05T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:27:13","slug":"virginia-tech-transfer-portal-update-january-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495158\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Transfer Portal Update, January 5, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IVM.251203.FB_.Signing.Day_.1624.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9312695 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IVM.251203.FB_.Signing.Day_.1624.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Tech, James Franklin\" width=\"2100\" height=\"1400\"  \/><\/a>It\u2019s portal time for Virginia Tech head coach James Franklin (Ivan Morozov)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to take our first look at what\u2019s going on with Virginia Tech in the transfer portal, and we\u2019re going to start with the offensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get started, I want to make a few notes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019re not writing an article for every single VT player that enters the transfer portal. We\u2019re doing an article for the main guys, but not for the guys who weren\u2019t playing. However, we\u2019re entering them into the <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiatech.sportswar.com\/2026-virginia-tech-football-roster-management-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roster Management Page<\/a>, which you should bookmark and check daily.<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Tech will have more players enter the transfer portal. So will other schools. Tech\u2019s current target board is not complete.<\/li>\n<li>The Hokies\u2019 pursuit of some players will go unreported until the player randomly commits. Don\u2019t ever expect to have a full picture of what is going on.<\/li>\n<li>Part of this article could be out-of-date by the time you read it. That\u2019s par for the course during the transfer portal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With that out of the way, let\u2019s take a position-by-position look at where Virginia Tech stands on offense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Grunkemeyer5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9348496 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Grunkemeyer5.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Tech, Ethan Grunkemeyer\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\"  \/><\/a>Penn State transfer quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer has plenty of talent. (Penn State athletics)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterback (3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/thw-stonebystone-2025-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7744835 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/THW-thehokieway-Dec2025_StonebyStone_1000x200_Coach.png\" alt=\"thehokieway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s portal time for Virginia Tech head coach James Franklin (Ivan Morozov) It\u2019s time to take our first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-495158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115845086959310967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}