The 2023 season is now behind us, and while there is still a bowl game to be played — The Fiesta Bowl vs. The Liberty Flames — Dan Lanning and the Oregon Ducks are working hard on the construction of their roster and hitting the transfer portal in attempts to formulate what this team will look like going into the 2024 season, the team’s first year in the Big Ten Conference. While they work on bringing new players in via the transfer portal, we want to look at the future breakdown of each position, detailing current players on the roster, incoming recruits, and potential targets on the market right now. Earlier this week, we broke down the future of the quarterback position, took a look at the wide receiver room in 2024, and dove into the RB room. N let’s focus on the tight ends.
In the new Oregon offense over the past couple of years, we’ve seen the tight end position grow in value for the Ducks, with players like Terrance Ferguson and Patrick Herbert utilized heavily in the game plan for Will Stein.
That shouldn’t be expected to change at all going forward, but it will be interesting to see how the personnel at the position does change. At the moment, Oregon has four tight ends in rotation, led by Ferguson, but there’s a chance the room looks quite a bit different at the start of the 2024 season. With potential NFL Draft decisions, impending transfers, and incoming freshmen, here’s a glance at the outlook for the tight ends going into next season: