College football is different in this era.

ESPN reports.

Have we reached college football free agency?

Over a period of four days, two of the inaugural College Football Playoff teams replaced their Heisman-Trophy-winning quarterbacks with graduate transfers, fifth-year players who set foot on campus with their eligibility unencumbered by a redshirt year.

Oregon named Vernon Adams Jr., the Walter Payton Award runner-up the last two seasons at FCS Eastern Washington, to replace Marcus Mariota. Everett Golson, who started for Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship three seasons ago, will step into Jameis Winston’s spot in the Seminole huddle. There is also Greyson Lambert, who won the starting quarterback job at Georgia after starting nine games for Virginia a year ago.

Heavens to Russell Wilson, have we arrived at free agency?

We live in an era when a football scholarship includes a stipend, when the amount of food provided a player is no longer legislated, when medical care has become a recruiting issue. The right of a graduate to transfer without redshirting is one more weight that shifts the balance of power between player and school toward the former.