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.

13 hours ago, oregon123 said:

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.

As a true freshman he probably assumes he will redshirt 1st year where ever he goes.

He still has 5 years to play 4.

There were 29 Ducks in the portal, including Beaver, and walk-ons.

Of the 29, 25 have found spots so far.

Of the 25, 20 have found new homes in a Power4 program.

20 suggests to me that Lanning and his staff knew what they were doing when recruiting them. Unfortunate it didn't work out.

The transfer portal has been an instrument for players to get more playing time. That seems to be their primary motivation.

Schools are using it to fill key holes they've lost and much needed depth.

This makes my feel stronger about moving to a 24 team playoff. It appears even the elite teams will have difficulty maintaining excellence behind their starters.

The Portal is like unrestricted free agency in the NFL. I believe lower graded four stars would be wise to go to the lower tier OR programs and mid to upper tier G6 programs instead of signing with the programs with a stockpile of talent.

That group will not only stand out, but with the right production, they'll rival the high 4 star and 5 star players for NIL money. If I were a QB, if definitely go to Purdue, Rutgers Mississippi State or similar programs because they can dominate anyway, get valuable experience, and land a lucrative NIL deal and start for a title contender without having to earn the starting role.

Schools are just as shady as the players. They're cutting loose the guys that won't play, and telling some players they don't fit their respective systems.

I think coaches need a full bowl scouting department so they can find the high school played that can start immediately. And find lower graded players they can develop into starters on the cheap. There are too many hits and misses in recruiting classes these days. Sinx and day 0

The patients are now running the asylum, and have created their own formula: 1) get recruited and sign letter of intent, but remember who also wanted you. 2) wait. 3) enter transfer portal. 4) sign with one of those who also wanted you (or someone else) for a boat load of NIL $$.

And who can blame them? They’ve just flipped the script, and taken advantage of the greed that now has college football by the short hairs.

17 hours ago, Dave23 said:

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.

But was he already getting pushed out by Wyatt? Purchase redshirted last year and Wyatt haa entered the rotation as a change of pace edge rusher.

I would rather have Purchase on the roster but with both ends returning and Wyatt and maybe even Rushing pushing him from below how safe was his position on the two deep?

2 hours ago, David Marsh said:

But was he already getting pushed out by Wyatt? Purchase redshirted last year and Wyatt haa entered the rotation as a change of pace edge rusher.

I would rather have Purchase on the roster but with both ends returning and Wyatt and maybe even Rushing pushing him from below how safe was his position on the two deep?

What I liked best was his pass coverage, like a good CB, the ball didn't get thrown his way a lot as he was generally in good position. That being said, Wyatt looks faster, hopefully he has those coverage instincts.