The transfer portal era in college athletics seems like it’s been with us forever. Likewise, most fans can recall less turbulent times when transfers happened, they simply didn’t look like a stampede to the 1849 California Gold Rush.We thought it was time to rank the best transfers Cal teams have attracted, most of them in recent seasons but also including a few OGs from yesteryear. We limited our ranking to transfers from four-year colleges.Here is the next athlete in our countdown: 46. David ReeseSport: FootballArrival year at Cal: 2023Previous school: Florida (Plagued by injuries that wiped out his 2019 and ’21 seasons altogether, the one-time four-star linebacker recruit finished five years with 10 tackles and an undergrad degree) Contributions at Cal: — The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Florida native arrived at Berkeley for the 2023 campaign and stayed healthy enough to deliver an All-Pac-12 honorable mention campaign with 36 tackles, eight tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks and three passes defended — all career highs.— In 2023, he also was chosen to the National Football Foundation’s Honor Society as a post-graduate student.— Reese played 12 games in 2024 and contributed 22 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks and two passes defended.— Having already played portions of six seasons — but getting credit for chronic injury issues and given the 2020 COVID waiver — Reese was cleared to play a seventh season over an eight-year span. He transferred to Syracuse, where he had 27 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks for a 3-9 Orange team.Standout performance: Reese enjoyed his best stretch of football for the Bears over the final four games of the 2023 season, totaling 18 tackles, seven tackles for loss, including 5 1/2 sacks, and three forced fumbles. In a 33-7 rout of UCLA that earned the Bears bowl eligibility in the regular-season finale, Reese had a career-high three sacks and forced fumble. He was honored as the Pac-12 Defensive Lineman of the Week, the Bednarik Player of the Week and was named to the Pro Football Focus College Team of the Week.Impact on his team: The Bears took a chance on a player whose promise had largely been derailed by injuries, and Reese responded with the two most productive seasons of his career. But Cal was just 6-6 in both regular seasons before losing a bowl game each time.Previously on our list: No. 47: Xavier CarltonNo. 48: Mady SissokoNo. 49: Kayla Williams Add us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow