This series will examine the film we have on Oregon players who’ve been backups in past seasons, but are primed to become starters next season. The tape we have of these players is limited: some of it is in garbage time, but even tape of their meaningful snaps, because this wasn’t “1s vs 1s” play, usually didn’t make my in-season film review articles since it wasn’t representative. So the reader will have to view these with a critical eye, keeping in mind the level of competition and that these players hadn’t yet finished developing.
Oregon is losing Drayton Carlberg, one of my favorite Ducks and who in his senior year at defensive tackle really turned it on and played well above his talent ranking.