I’ll just say the Quooks forte isn’t in player development
Lol. It’s really cute that this narrative is still a thing.
Is it not accurate?
Can you give me examples of players that got materially better at Oregon?
Johnny Johnson is night and day better.
You want me to list the rest?
Who?
Johnny Johnson had around 750 yards in 2019. The year before he dropped everything. He’s preseason all-pac selection.
Alex Forsyth was 2nd team all-pac last year after nothing. Troy Dye looked way better last year. Jamal Hill put it together at the end of the year last year. Breeze was headed no where and blew up. Popo Aumavae improved over the 2019 season. DJ James improved last season.
Spring game surprise was Dawson Jaramillo and Treven Ma’ae. They were markedly better.
Good Luck.
You lost me when you leveraged Brady Breeze’s slow ass
Did he get materially better at Oregon?
Ranked in the 200s as a recruit. Drafted in the 200s.
It’s a win for Oregon development but not a big one by any means.
Well if we’re looking at guys who outperformed their recruiting rankings with their draft position;
Herbert. 3*, 659 nationally.
Sewell 4*, 57 nationally
Holland 4*, 165 nationally
Lemieux, 3* 498 nationally
Dye, 3*, 595 nationally
KT was the #2 player nationally and will go around there—but if you’ve watched him he was basically invisible the first 3/4 of his freshmen year before a switch flipped and he started to get it. And was vastly improved last “season”.
I don’t really even like this metric because the last couple of years (and going forward) Oregon isn’t really taking any sub 400 guys. Feels like by this standard they’re being punished for recruiting too well. If you take 18/25 sub 400 guys of course you’re going to have more kids who get drafted above their recruit ranking—because those kids are more likely to be undersized coming out of hs and turn into late bloomers. But I rather be the program pulling in 18/25 top 250 guys.