If you explore the way they rank the team's working the portal, they're only accounting for in-flow. I guess the point of view from folks dismissing the overall roster attrition are fine with that, but CU has lost multiple players that they'd prefer to have kept at this point. Not many, but it's at least 4, 1 of whom came to CU with Sanders.
As of now, the count looks like: 62 players returning - 51 exits + 29 transfers - 1transfer in transferring out + 19 recruits = 58 players to be on the roster for 2023. That's like Miami from the mid-90's low. They're going to need to add a bunch of guys and, irrespective of what Deion or people in the media carrying water for him say, there's not a ton of top tier talent from the portal to add unless there's a big run over the next few days for guys to get in the motherfucker. Never mind any further attrition in the next few days or over the course of the summer.
As of now, the roster can only have a theoretical 7 of 22 starting positions with a 4 or 5 star starter manning the position. At CB, they will be able to cover people like a motherfucker with McClain and Hunter. They have 2 4 star WR transfers from USF and a 4 star WR recruit. 1 4 star TE. 1 4 star TB. At WR, the 4 star transfers were outclassed by Lemonius-Craig and Hunter, so not sure how terrific they're going to be.
In short, those "200+ 4 and 5 star recruits and P5 starters" are going to need to start showing up reaaaalll quicklike. Otherwise, this dude is about to be starting a bunch of guys that couldn't hack it at other schools after having decent high school grades, true freshmen, Hunter, Sanders and McClain, and a bunch of other dudes that he would have cut if they were on the roster when he showed up. The more I look at what is happening, the more entertaining this is getting.