{"id":8239,"date":"2025-12-09T09:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8239"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:29:03","slug":"liberty-flames-star-rb-evan-dickens-to-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8239","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Flames star RB Evan Dickens to enter transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty running back Evan Dickens, the nation&#8217;s No. 5 rusher this season, will enter the transfer portal with two years of eligibility remaining, he announced Monday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to Coach Chadwell, the coaching staff and the entire Flames family for providing me the opportunity to compete and develop as a football player,&#8221; Dickens wrote in his post, adding, &#8220;I am excited for the next chapter in my journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dickens had 1,362 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns for the Flames, along with 61 receiving yards and a score. The second-team All-Conference USA selection ranked third nationally in rushing average (121.7), fourth in rushing touchdowns, seventh in all-purpose yards (127.2) and 10th in scoring (9.3).<\/p>\n<p>A redshirt sophomore, he eclipsed 200 rushing yards in three of his final five games and had a career-high 267 yards and four touchdowns in an overtime loss to Kennesaw State, the eventual league champion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S1L13NwvNP0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/47251647\/liberty-running-back-evan-dickens-enter-college-football-transfer-portal\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com reports &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty running back Evan Dickens, the nation&#8217;s No. 5 rusher this season, will enter the transfer portal with two years of eligibility remai&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8239\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty Flames star RB Evan Dickens to enter transfer portal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[633],"class_list":["post-8239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-flames-star-rb-evan-dickens-to-enter-transfer-portal","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-28T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8240,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239\/revisions\/8240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}