Devy Sleepers: 5 Transfer Portal Additions Flying Under the Radar
Kevin looks at five Devy additions in the portal who are underpriced.
The transfer portal isn’t just offseason noise; it’s one of the biggest market inefficiencies in Devy.
Every spring, rankings cling to last year’s production while environments quietly shift underneath them. Play callers change. Quarterbacks upgrade. Vacated targets pile up. Depth charts reset. And yet ADP often lags weeks sometimes months, behind those realities.
That lag is where sharp managers profit.
In Devy, we’re not drafting what a player has already done. We’re drafting projected role, trajectory, and NFL translation. A new system can unlock traits that were buried. A clearer path to volume can manufacture breakout production. And one spike season in the right environment can dramatically change draft capital conversations.
These five transfer portal additions aren’t generating headlines, but the setups matter. The situation improved. The pathways widened. And if things break right, the price you can get them at today won’t exist by midseason.
This is where we buy before the market adjusts.
Josh Hoover, QB — Indiana
Quarterbacks are rarely “sleepers” in Devy. The position is too visible, too debated, too priced in. But sometimes the market gets fatigued, and that’s where value hides.
Josh Hoover transfers from TCU to Indiana with more career passing yards than any returning quarterback in college football. Let that sink in. Over 9,600 career yards. Three years of starting experience. Multiple 3,400+ yard seasons. Thirty-plus total touchdowns in back-to-back years. And yet in most Devy formats, he’s effectively free.
Why?
Because he’s replacing a Heisman winner. The optics matter. Indiana is coming off a national title run behind Fernando Mendoza, and anytime you follow that act, expectations get weird. But Devy isn’t about narrative pressure. It’s about role, volume, and NFL translation. Hoover steps into a quarterback-friendly system under Curt Cignetti and Mike Shanahan, a staff that just demonstrated it can clean up turnover issues and elevate a transfer quarterback into an award-winning season. That part matters. Hoover’s biggest blemish at TCU was ball security. He’s thrown 33 career interceptions and led the Big 12 in picks last season. The aggression is there. Sometimes too much.
But here’s the flip side.
He’s a 6’2”, 200-pound passer with legitimate vertical touch, high-volume experience (nearly 900 attempts over the last two seasons), and comfort operating RPO-heavy structures. He’s not learning how to play quarterback. He’s refining it. And refinement inside the right infrastructure can shift draft conversations quickly. Indiana won’t ask him to be a hero. They’ll ask him to distribute, manage leverage, and attack vertically off structure, the same formula that just produced elite efficiency at the position.
If the turnovers normalize, not disappear, just normalize, Hoover has the statistical profile to post a 4,000-yard season in the Big Ten. And if that happens, we’re suddenly talking about a multi-year starter with production, experience, and system-backed development entering the draft cycle with momentum.
Devy Angle
He’s essentially unrostered in most Devy leagues. That’s the inefficiency. He’s not a raw upside freshman. He’s not a projection play. He’s a proven volume passer entering a quarterback-enhancing ecosystem with national spotlight.
In C2C formats, he’s even more interesting, immediate production with potential draft capital insulation.
Bottom Line:
Hoover isn’t a ceiling bet. He’s a stability + system bet. And when experienced quarterbacks step into optimized environments, the market adjusts fast. If he cuts the turnovers and maintains the volume, the “free” price won’t last past October.
