As college football embraces coast-to-coast chaos, it's illuminating to see where former Ducks are landing as they seek new opportunities in free agency run amuck. Over 6,700 Division I players have entered the portal, and more than 8000 from all levels of the sport.

In that insane market, former Duck players have wound up in prime locations:

Tionne Gray Notre Dame

Dakoda Fields Oklahoma

Jahlil Florence Missouri

Sione Laulea Missouri

Daylen Austin Arizona

Jayden Limar Washington

Jay Harris Kansas State

Ashton Porter Houston

Kingston Lopa Cal

Cooper Perry Cal

Kamar Mothudi trips to NC State and Cal

Jurrion Dickey Memphis

Kade Caton USF

Justius Lowe San Diego State

Kyler Kasper Brigham Young

Makhi Hughes Houston

Add: Blake Purchase to Ole Miss, Bryson Beaver to Georgia.

It's staggering to think that guys who couldn't start at Oregon, in some cases even make the two-deep, are commanding NIL deals in the tens of thousands and some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars at SEC schools, bluebloods and playoff contenders.

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Oregon transfers are landing in some eyebrow-raising dest...

Edge rusher Blake Purchase joined Al Golden's squad in Oxford. A Duck for a minute, true freshman quarterback Bryson Beaver is trending to Georgia.

This is the first year we've lost any players to the portal that will actually affect us negatively next year in the 2 deep, and it's quite a few:

Purchase, Porter, Lopa, Austin, Harris, Gray, Green, Jericho Johnson (he was going to pass Gray and Green with another year).

About half can be replaced in the portal, but the rest will be loss of quality depth.

Wow this is crazy to fathom, while some will definitely be missed for depth not any starters are leaving. I can't blame these guys for leaving most of them will start at their new team.

I'm going to miss Purchase a lot he brought a great change of pace on the outside of the line and could be a dominant player with a bigger role.

1 hour ago, Solar said:

This is the first year we've lost any players to the portal that will actually affect us negatively next year in the 2 deep, and it's quite a few:

The Ducks certainly aren't alone in this regard. The Georgia Bulldawgs lost a couple of very promising DBs even though they saw the field a good bit as freshmen. One was probably feeling squeamish as the Dawgs snapped up two very experienced CBs who are going to play ahead of him. So he portaled to Ohio State where the likelihood of becoming a starter (not to mention the NIL payout) will be higher.

While we are at it, the head recruiting Guru at Georgia mentions Ohio State as one of the leading programs that is getting hammered with important losses in the portal this year. I think when the smoke clear, a fair number of top programs will be licking their wounds over players they'd hoped to retain that ended up flying the coop.

I don't see any of those on the list becoming great players at Oregon.

Justius Lowe and Blake Purchase have made some plays. But even those guys are not good enough to start for Ohio St, Georgia, Texas, etc.

Oregon is growing and growing means the pretty good are no longer good enough. The standard is rising.

Lanning might be planning on playing a lot of the incoming true freshmen. Hill, Davison, Dak Moore, Finny broke the mold - talent trumps experience.

In years past, a lot on that list would have broken through with some time and won a starting job or got on the field quite a bit.

Blake Purchase did that. But with what is coming in, it is harder for those kind of players to ascend at Oregon.

Novosad went to Bowling Green, where he should see a lot of playing time.

Beaver went to Georgia, where his chances of playing probably just got smaller. I don't see that move making any sense at all.

He might be one of the guys that transfers a dozen times in his college career.