Often times on Saturday afternoons, we see athletes do things the viewer could never accomplish, let alone should ever try. That’s why these people are college athletes. They were good enough to continue their careers past high school and deserve to entertain us on the weekends, often making a lot of money for doing so.
However, even among these impressive athletes, a number stand apart. The Athletics’s Bruce Feldman likes to call these the freak athletes. For years, Feldman has been creating the ‘Freak List,’ comprised of the athletes who “generate buzz inside their programs by displaying the unique physical abilities that wow even those who observe gifted athletes every day.”
Last year, Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux was on the list, unsurprisingly. This year, Feldman has a number of Ducks and a nod to a few who were left off of the list.
Here are the Oregon football players who made the 2022 Freak List: