Four-star Rivals100 RB Richard Young announces visit:

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Covering his visit over the weekend:

Gabriel has the story from today's 15th and final spring practice:

Transfer portal WR. Keep an eye on him.

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Speedster (10.4 100M speed) caught 18 passes for 523 yards and 6 TDs last season for Louisville. Doing the math for you, that is an average of 29.1 Yards per reception (he had a long of 92).

Form charts are good but it doesn’t always tell the whole story…ultimately all polls have their flaws.
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Scott Kelley, who has done work here in the past, is going to be our featured DSA photographer again in 2022. Here's a gallery of his photos from the spring game:

Aaron gives his takeaways after Oregon's spring game on Saturday.

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Selma, Alabama safety prospect Dakaari Nelson has a couple dozen offers at this point in the process and now he's ready to start focusing on a smaller group. Oregon offered the 79th-ranked prospect in the 2023 class last month and has quickly moved into his top group. The Ducks have are joined by Clemson, Tennessee, Auburn, Kentucky and Penn State on his short list. Clemson has gained a good amount of buzz with him, but he's not pushing to make an early commitment at this stage. His plan has been to take some official visits this summer before using some of his official visits on trips during the season.

He doesn't have a full updated junior highlight tape posted so here are clips from one of his games last season plus his full sophomore highlight film.

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Apparently has landed at Florida now

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Anyone want to got out on a limb and prognosticate which of the uncommitted visitors at Oregon Day/Spring Game the Ducks will sign?

Lots of news and rumors following a busy weekend:

We'll have Brandon, Aaron, Jacob and Gabriel out at the spring game today, and hopefully we can get a good live blog going here. We'll have them in the discussion, but it would be cool to have everybody who is going or watching at home to share their thoughts along the way as well.

In a dramatic turn of events, the men now rank second nationally according to the Chile Form Chart. They are really coming on, but they need to keep everybody healthy.

The women, on the other hand, aren't even in the top 30. The women have a lot of athletes that are close to cracking into scoring position. The women's roster is deep. The men do not have that same kind of depth as the women. The NCAA Championships will be in Eugene. A lot can happen between now and then. Credit great coaching for the improvement and development of the team's athletes.

This series started in crazy fashion as the ducks came from behind to win in the 10th 8-7. Ducks were down 6-0 by the 4th, 7-0 after the 5th as the cougars chased ducks starter RJ Gordon early. I watched as the ducks finally started making progress on the cougars starter getting a couple runs back in the later innings but were down 7-2 in the 9th when they erupted for 5 runs to tie it! Ducks bullpen did well locking the cougars down in the final 5 frames. This would have been a bad loss so I’m glad the ducks were able to get their focus back and win this one. Game 2 tomorrow 3, local time

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Rivals250 all-purpose back Cameron Cook has released his top six and the Ducks are one of two Pac-12 teams to make the cut along with Cal. Texas, TCU, Penn State and Kansas State are the other programs remaining on his list. Cook recently visited Oregon and the Ducks have emerged as one of the top contenders in his recruitment with Eugene beginning to feel like his likely landing spot. USC, Ole Miss and Cincinnati are some of the notable omissions from his short list.

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9-7 giving up….you guessed it a 2 run dinger in the 8th inning….(Huskies 3rd of the game). It was a woulda’, coulda’, shoulda’ won kind of game but alas they lost.
Again…..you don’t win many games giving up nine runs or lose many games scoring 7 runs…☹️🤷‍♂️!
Game three today but if Plain goes for the Huskies….good luck!

a QB hits the portal from our three I would think it would be Thompson. IMO he looked like the 3rd best QB yesterday which bummed me as I have been pulling for him.
I hope all three stay but these kids want to play and all three have very good talent. So….nothing will surprise me with the good ole’ portal game.
Thoughts!?

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High three-star 2023 tight end Jackson Bowers from Mountain View HS in Mesa, Arizona has released his top seven after another recent string of visits. Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss and BYU are the schools still in the running for the 6-foot-5 recruit. He is now expected to move into the process of selecting his five official visits before eventually making a decision.

LSU, Baylor, Michigan State, Arizona State, Utah and West Virginia are some of the notable programs that have offered Bowers but did not make the cut.

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Good story here from Jacob Hamre:

I was very impressed with the spring game today. I thought both sides played well particularly for April.

A few notes...

• Loved the fact Lanning allowed the offense to open up. This will not be a ground and pound situation we have seen since the Chip Kelly era
• DJ Johnson has a chance to be really good on the DL. I realize the OL was split squad but still, the Predator made many plays
• Chase Cota is going to be a big time help on for the offense
• Seven McGee is looking outstanding. I've loved him long long time so am very happy he is getting to show his wares now
• Dan Lanning was a good hire
• I'm hoping the RB's get a chance to shine more during the season. I like a balanced attack so we need to be able to run the ball
• Glad the Ducks got the missed FG's out of the way now
• The DB mix should be new and interesting. Guys like JJ Greenfield showed out.
• The QB situation... very interesting. Bo Nix looked good mostly, but sometimes bad. Ty Thompson clearly can be excellent, but has work to do. Butterfield had some solid moments himself
• Ducks need the LB group to be healthy for the season to be a great one
• Hoping the OL looks better once it's not split squad. They have every opportunity to be good, but we need to see it.

Cheers!

Gabriel examines the Oregon offense under new OC Kenny Dillingham that brought back some memories of the past with its explosive plays, led by quarterback Bo Nix, during Saturday's spring game.

Jacob Hamre looks at the defensive standouts from today: