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Oregon offensive coordinator Will Stein talks about the Ducks’ quarterback room at the start of spring practices.
Oregon Ducks football coach Dan Lanning confirms that the starting quarterback position for the 2025 season is a wide-open competition.Offensive coordinator Will Stein is pleased with the quarterbacks’ progress and believes they have the potential to succeed.
Though spring football practice has just begun, and the Oregon football team will head to spring break before returning full time to practice in April, the starting quarterback competition for 2025 is well underway.
At his first press conference following the Ducks’ first spring practice Thursday, coach Dan Lanning confirmed that a starter was far from decided heading into the fall.
“It’ll absolutely be a competition,” Lanning said. “It’s a competition at every single position on the field for us. Competition is what makes us better. I’m excited to see those guys grow and they’ve done a good job. We’ve added some wrinkles this offseason that are a little bit different and they’ve done a good job absorbing that and executing it.”
Over the first three seasons of Lanning’s tenure in Eugene the Ducks have been fortunate to feature two of the most experienced quarterbacks in college football history in Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel.
A year after Nix broke the record for most starts made by a college football quarterback in 2023, Gabriel broke that record in 2024 for the Ducks. Both were Heisman Trophy finalists.
Now Oregon is turning the page on a much younger, but equally talented group of gunslingers, featuring sophomore Dante Moore, redshirt freshman Luke Moga, sophomore Brock Thomas, true freshman Akili Smith Jr. and sophomore Austin Novosad.
Moore, who transferred from UCLA after a bumpy freshman season…
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Publish date : 2025-03-15 21:40:00
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