Tobi Haastrup and Markus Dixon

One edge leaving and one coming in. Oregon needs pass rushers.

Simeon Price and Iverson Hooks are my wildcards. They might break out.

Edited yesterday at 03:09 AM1 day by Smith72
2 words needed to be capitalized

In order of impact:

Out: Blake Purchase, Kingston Lopa and Tionne Gray

In: Koi Perich, Iverson Hooks, Carl Williams IV and Andrew Olesh

Out: Tionne Gray, DT, as he is 330 lbs., and incredibly agile.

In: Iverson Hooks at WR puts a ton of pressure on Evan Stewart and the newbies to out-perform. We all win, and with an experienced QB returning--the passing game looks explosive.

Iverson Hooks

Is there news about A'Mauri Washington that I missed?

Anyone that wants to play at Oregon and compete is alright by me.

Those that left have goals they want to achieve elsewhere. I have to agree with Charles that the DT/DE depth chart took a beating with departures. Sorry to see any kid not realize their goal of starting at Oregon. But, sports either builds, or tears down a persons character, and I these young men land on their feet.

1 hour ago, Vanducky said:

Is there news about A'Mauri Washington that I missed?

Nope. I thought he was gone, but he returned, thus I edited my post.

All,

I will miss Tionne Gray and Blake Purchase. They are both terrific athletes, and I appreciated Blake Purchase's RS year to better prepare himself.
I believe we will miss both of these players immensely. We must be smarter with the carrots we use; the players want to play, but the other players motivate players better than just the coaches.

I believe we ought to start substituting Elijah Rushing and Aydin Breland whenever it is feasible to give the starters a break. Use them or LOSE them. When we give the defensive starters a break to catch their breath, we produce a better product; and not all at once, please. Too many teams (in the B1G) are head-hunting OBDs - don't want to give teams an easy 7 like we provided Northwestern this year. Don't want to reward but then punish our defensive starters. I could visualize Elijah as another Matayo if he gets the snaps, and the players hold him to the Duck standard; IF. The same with Aydin - use that carrot, but from the players; it's more powerful.

Best regards, and of course, Go Ducks!!!
KCDuck1

Since we will probably/have to lose all the returners on the DL, it will be interesting to see if any of the departures try and return for Duck glory.

And, if so, will they be welcomed back?