After a few long off-season months, the grass is beginning to grow and the trees are preparing to bloom. The Oregon Ducks’ long-awaited football season returns in Eugene this spring.Dan Lanning’s team will face changes this year as top players from previous year, such as Bo Nix, Troy Franklin, Bucky Irving, Jackson Powers-Johnson, and Brandon Dorlus, go to the NFL. All of this is not to mention that the Ducks are entering the Big Ten and will have to adjust to a new conference, as well as a berth in the enlarged College Football Playoff to strive for.
It’s reasonable to say that there will be a lot to speak about and topics to debate once the spring season begins. To get things started, we’d like to provide a position-by-position breakdown of Oregon’s current roster, keeping readers up to date on who has departed, who has returned, and what the overall prognosis is heading into the spring. We’ll start with the quarterbacks.
When one of the best quarterbacks in college football history leaves, the next person has enormous shoes to fill. In 2023, Bo Nix set the collegiate football record for the highest completion % in the sport’s history, guiding the Ducks to a Fiesta Bowl triumph after coming third in Heisman Trophy voting.
Nix is now set to enter the NFL, where he is expected to be drafted in the first round. While Oregon has a lot of production to cover at the quarterback position, they did a terrific job of locating potential difference-makers in the transfer portal, bringing in both Dillon Gabriel and Dante Moore.
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