Running back Caleb Porzel is leaving the football team and is no longer enrolled at the university, an athletic department official confirmed Thursday to the Washington Post.
Apparently, the decision is related to academics. Porzel sat out the team’s Tuesday and Thursday workouts this spring to concentrate on classes, though he did participate in Saturday practices. The Baltimore Sun reported that he would transfer.
As a true freshman for the team last season, Porzel played in seven games and started one. He burned his redshirt after starter Da’Rel Scott broke his wrist in the fifth game of the season and ran for 75 yards on 30 carries.
The speedy back from Good Counsel High School (Olney, Md.) was ranked a four-star recruit by Rivals.com and Scout.com.
This year, he was expected to split playing time with Davin Megget and D.J. Adams behind Scott.
[...] to the Post story, Porzel was missing practice time to focus on improving his academics. There are reports that academic issues were behind the departure, although I think PT could have been a factor [...]