In his 13 career games, Epps has pulled in 44 catches for 506 yards and six touchdowns. When he's been on the field, he's been fantastic for the Cougars, but he has struggled staying on the field. He missed time as a true freshman, missed the entire 2021 season, and missed five games this past season. Fair or unfair, injuries have been a huge component of the Epps story at BYU. The debate comes in deciding how much the news hurts BYU.Įpps figured to be a big player within the offense, but the reality is that he has played in a total of 13 games during his three years at BYU. This move hurts the Cougars, without question.

Sources have indicated to Cougar Sports Insider that nearly everyone within the football program at BYU was surprised to hear of the move.Īs stated, there is no sense in sugar-coating the news for BYU. On the surface, everything appeared to be great between Epps and BYU.Įpps has yet to publicly say anything about his reasoning for leaving BYU. As evidenced by his social media feed, he had landed several NIL deals and was going to be a fixture within a BYU offense that has sent wide receivers to the NFL Draft in two of the last three seasons. There had been rumors that Epps could potentially enter the transfer portal back in December, but since that time, he had appeared to be locked in and committed to playing at BYU this season. This is a move that caught coaches, teammates and anyone else around BYU by surprise. Now, barring something even more unexpected than his entrance into the transfer portal, Epps will be playing for another team in 2023. Epps was a standout throughout spring practices, had been one of the faces of the program on social media and BYUtv, and was positioned to compete to be BYU's top wide receiver in 2023. The wide receiver position was arguably the weakest unit on BYU's roster, and one of the projected 'Big Three' players is now leaving the room. The blow to the BYU offense is obvious, there is no sugar coating that. April 30 is, of course, the final day of the spring transfer portal window before players would be unable to enter their name into the portal without having an undergraduate degree in hand.

Just when BYU was thinking they had made it out of the spring transfer portal window without any major hits to the projected depth chart, wide receiver Kody Epps entered the transfer portal today.

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