Coaches want to add a quarterback every year. It just makes sense at a place like Oregon, where the Ducks currently have four working in the NFL. A staff wants progression and development.
They feel good about the future of 2025 true freshman Akili Smith Jr. and 2026 commit Bryson Beaver, so much so that the staff hasn't officially offered Ryder Lyons and doesn't have plans to have him visit.
They're targeting three quarterbacks in the 2027 class and they're in a good position for all three, Dane Weber of Chapparal High School in Temecula, California, who's visiting for the Montana State game, Trent Seaborn of Alabaster, Alabama, a 72 percent passer in 2025, and Keegan Croucher, a 6-4 gunslinger and three-sport athlete from Chesire Academy in Chesire, Connecticut.