STILLWATER — Through injuries and a 30-day portal window that opened upon Mike Gundy’s firing, this Cowboy roster has been decimated.

When interim Oklahoma State coach Doug Meacham approached the podium for his Monday news conference, the game notes were flipped to the Cowboys’ projected two-deep.

“What’s this depth chart for?” he asked while cracking open a Diet Pepsi. “That things like a revolving door — for everybody, really.”

Double digit Cowboys entered the transfer portal in the 30 days following Gundy’s dismissal. The last of which was starting right tackle Grant Seagren, who hopped in essentially at the buzzer of the window’s closing.

Seagren, though, has maintained his spot on the field. While entering the portal around the Texas Tech game, Seagren has played 195 snaps on the offensive line across the Cowboys’ past three games, according to PFF, which means he’s missed out on just one offensive snap.

The players’ futures aren’t guaranteed with the ongoing leadership transition atop the OSU program, so Seagren said he got in the portal as some sort of protection against the uncertainties ahead.

“While I am in the portal, I got an agent for that whole process,” Seagren said. “I haven’t had a single conversation really with any teams or anybody like that. The goal is to always come back. It’s kind of like having car insurance — just because you have it doesn’t mean you want to go wreck your car.”

It’s the biggest sign of the times in the modern landscape that, essentially, free agents are playing on teams.

It takes some getting used to even for the coaches, who are dealing with this type of stuff for the first time.

“My personal viewpoint is, they’re still practicing, they’re still playing,” Meacham said. “They’re looking at their options just like anybody would do in a business world. But, at the same time, they are still here. They don’t have to be. They could probably opt out. They have enough tape. There’s people calling them wanting them to come take a look at our school and those types of things. And they’re saying, ‘You know what? I’m listening to you, I may come look at you, but I’m on this team and I’m going to continue to battle with my teammates.’

“Is it something at this point in my life that I would say excites you? No, but I do appreciate the guys that are still out there battling. They’re just looking at in in terms of the business.”

Noah McKinney, who had started at guard for the Cowboys, also jumped in the portal when it was open with the expectation to stick around and play, but after returning from injury to play 31 snaps against Kansas a few weeks back, McKinney recently committed to Big 12 rival TCU and has reportedly left the team.

This has been the first extended playing time of Seagren’s career. He walked on at Nebraska, playing in seven games across two seasons with the Cornhuskers before transferring to Stillwater this offseason.

After Markell Samuel went down with an injury shortly ahead of the Oregon game, Seagren was thrown into the fire, playing just about every snap.

“I love this place. I love the people, and they’ve poured a lot into me,” Seagren said. “Just coming in in the summer and the start of the season, I still play for those people every day. Some of the guys, this is it for them. They deserve the best out of me just as much as I deserve the best out of them. It’s just kind of a reciprocating thing. It’s all about just giving back to those people that give to you.”