Arizona State received commitments from two defensive backs on Saturday, Chance Rucker from Michigan State and Nigel Pringle from Arkansas, according to SunDevilSource.com’s Chris Karpman.
Rucker, a 6-foot-1, 179-pound cornerback, played the past three seasons with the Spartans.
He recorded 31 tackles, one interception and seven pass break-ups in the 23 games he appeared in.
Before his time in East Lansing, Rucker was a three-star recruit out of Denton Ryan High School in Texas, where he was ranked among the top cornerbacks in the country by 247Sports (No. 46), ESPN (No. 47), Rivals (No. 52) and On3 (No. 53).
Pringle arrives in Tempe as a redshirt freshman after spending his first season with the Razorbacks, where he appeared in eight games, tallying two tackles.
The 6-foot-2, 177 -pound cornerback was originally a three-star recruit out of Houston’s North Shore High School.
Both Rucker and Pringle help the Sun Devils fill out the depth of their secondary after losing nearly the entirety of last year’s regular rotation aside from Boogie Wilson and Montana Warren.
Rodney Bimage Jr. also returns to the fold and factors into the equation for a Sun Devils team that lost all five starters from their secondary.
Overall, ASU has been busy in the transfer portal this offseason.
It picked up its first addition in the transfer portal in Kentucky quarterback Cutter Boley, likely the Sun Devils’ starter for 2026, less than 48 hours after it officially opened.
He committed after the first day of what was expected to be a two-day visit, bringing high upside as a consensus four-star prospect with a 6-foot-5, 220-pound frame. He will have three years of eligibility remaining.
The Sun Devils proceeded to load up the offense around Boley, adding two of the top five wideouts in the portal — No. 2 Omarion Miller (Colorado) and No. 4 Reed Harris (Boston College) — along with Raiden Vines-Bright (Washington), who played meaningful snaps as a true freshman.
ASU also added two running backs who were highly productive at the FCS level in Marquis Gillis (Delaware State) and David Avit (Villanova) to help replace Raleek Brown and Kanye Udoh, who chose to transfer out.
Thursday, the final day of the first week, saw seven more NCAA additions plus a JUCO defensive lineman. The day’s additions included another quarterback in Chandler prep product Mikey Keene (Fresno State), Kansas safety Lyrik Rawls and Georgia Tech center Tana Alo-Tupuola.
Special teams got some attention on as well with long snapper Grayson Curtis (New Mexico State) and kicker Carson Smith (Austin Peay), who is reuniting with special teams coordinator Jack Nudo after working with him in 2022 (East Carolina) and 2024 (Austin Peay). That was after punter Nick McLarty (Ohio State) was added.
ASU added safety Jessiah McGrew (FAU), who tallied 67 tackles, four interceptions, four passes defensed and two forced fumbles across 12 games played in his first season at Florida Atlantic. He was second in the CUSA for both picks and forced fumbles.
Edge rusher Jalen Thompson was also added, a four-star recruit in the 2023 class who transferred from Michigan State.
Thompson is the No. 18 edge in the portal and picked ASU over at least three other schools, and visited Notre Dame and Indiana, according to 247’s portal rankings. He started 10 games as a junior in 2025, collecting 2.5 sacks, 30 tackles and eight quarterback hurries. He led the team with 6.5 tackles for loss.
The former Michigan State edge rusher was the second Big Ten defender ASU added in the span of two days. The Sun Devils also earned a commitment from Penn State Nittany Lions transfer safety Antoine Belgrave-Shorter. Belgrave-Shorter played in nine games for the Nittany Lions last season, including three starts, and collected 14 tackles.
Brown and quarterback Sam Leavitt are the most notable portal departures for ASU. Leavitt has visited three SEC campuses but is yet to find a home after the Demond Williams Jr. saga appeared to take LSU off the board while Leavitt was visiting Baton Rouge.
Brown landed at Texas after a courtship process that also included Indiana and Alabama. He had previously declared for the 2026 NFL Draft but is leaving his options open to play for a new college football program next season.
The transfer portal has changed, not only in its activity due to NIL but also in its timing. The NCAA moved the transfer portal from December to January, and it is only open from Jan. 2-16 in a single window.
Dillingham’s program won eight games in the regular season after reaching the Big 12 title game in 2024. The Sun Devils went into their Territorial Cup matchup with Arizona with a remote chance to win the conference again, but a loss to the Wildcats quashed that possibility. A depleted ASU squad then fell to Duke in the Sun Bowl, 42-39.
The modern-day transfer portal brings on annual questions about what the roster will look like from one year to the next, and the biggest for ASU is what will happen at quarterback. How effectively Boley and Keene are able to answer that question remains to be seen.
Here is a running tracker of new Sun Devils arriving via the transfer portal, as well as those entering from Tempe:
Arizona State transfer tracker: Incoming transfers
QB Cutter Boley (Kentucky) — Jan. 3
WR Raiden Vines-Bright (Washington) — Jan. 4
RB David Avit (Villanova) — Jan. 4
DB Caleb Chester (Texas) — Jan. 4
WR Omarion Miller (Colorado) — Jan. 5
P Nick McLarty (Ohio State) — Jan. 5
CB Ashton Stamps (LSU) — Jan. 6
RB Marquis Gillis (Delaware State) — Jan. 6
WR Reed Harris (Boston College) — Jan. 7
K Carson Smith (Austin Peay) — Jan. 8
QB Mikey Keene (Michigan) — Jan. 8
S Lyrik Rawls (Kansas) — Jan. 8
DT Hyrum Vaeono (JUCO; Butler Community College) — Jan. 8
C Tana Alo-Tupuola (Georgia Tech) — Jan. 8
LS Grayson Curtis (New Mexico State) — Jan. 8
LB Owen Long (Colorado State) — Jan. 8
LB Ramere Davis (Northern Arizona) — Jan. 8
TE Anthony Miller (Tulane) — Jan. 9
EDGE Emar’rion Winston (Baylor) — Jan. 9
TE Kristian Ingman (Portland State) — Jan. 9
DL Jeffrey Manns II (JUCO; Hutchinson Community College) — Jan. 10
OT Luke Baklenko (Oklahoma) — Jan. 10
S Jessiah McGrew (Florida International) — Jan. 11
S Antoine Belgrave–Shorter (Penn State) — Jan. 12
EDGE Jalen Thompson (Michigan) — Jan. 13
CB Nigel Pringle (Arkansas) — Jan. 17
CB Chance Rucker (Michigan State) — Jan. 17
Outgoing transfers
LB Tate Romney — Oklahoma State
OL Joey Su’a — Central Arkansas
OT Josh Atkins — Missouri
CB Javan Robinson — Wisconsin
TE Jayden Fortier — Stephen F. Austin
QB Sam Leavitt — LSU
TE Coleson Arends
WR/PR Zechariah Sample
OL Sean Na’a — UCLA
CB Joseph McGinnis
P Matt McKenzie
WR Akim Lanieux
DB Chris Johnson II
DB Nikko Klemm — Sacramento State
DB Jack Bal — Washington State
CB Tony-Louis Nkuba — UNLV
RB Raleek Brown — Texas
RB Kanye Udoh
DB Adama Fall — Montana
DB Tommy Romano
DL Ian Shewell
WR Noble Johnson — Georgia Southern
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