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Justin Shorter entered the NCAA transfer portal on Tuesday, according to Yahoo Sports.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Penn State no longer lists the receiver on its online roster.

It’s the latest sign that the former five-star recruit and second-year member of the PSU program will elect to find a new home for his final college seasons. He can practice and play with the Lions while in the portal, but if he’s not on the roster, he won’t be suiting up for Saturday’s regular-season finale with Rutgers (3:30 p.m. on BTN).

That leads to an obvious question: What’s next?

Shorter, his family, and those who helped him during a recruiting process that saw multiple major schools involved for his services will start contacting those programs again to see which of them have spots open on their roster for the 2020 season and beyond.

Penn State, meanwhile, will surely attempt to re-recruit a player who once seemed destined to be a large part of its offense, and still could be, even though expectations haven’t been met through the first 24 games of his career. Shorter missed most of the 2018 season due to injury and has just 12 catches so far this fall.

"I’m not sure where we’re at," Lions coach James Franklin said on Tuesday.

“Obviously it was a conversation that was had. It was a conversation that was had.”

Josh Moyer of the Centre Daily Times first reported Shorter’s absence from the program’s online roster.

There is no timeline for Shorter to make a decision, and his lack of inclusion on the roster doesn’t mean he’s definitely gone.

Some players enter the Portal and find a new home rather quickly. Others take time to explore their options before either moving on -- as Tommy Stevens did to Mississippi State, for example -- or returning, as safety Lamont Wade did earlier this year.

The NCAA introduced the portal last October to make it easier for players to transfer, as they no longer need head coach approval. Instead, each school has two business days from the time a transfer request is made to list the player in the Portal. Then, coaches from other schools can contact him.

It’s very unlikely that Shorter returns to Penn State at this point, but it’s also wise to not rule anything out, ever, in the crazy world of college football.

That said, it’s fair to expect a different Lion to wear No. 6 on offense in 2020, and for Shorter to wear different uniform colors in the new year, too.

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