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Oregon DL Casey Rogers signs UDFA contract with NY Giants

Oregon defensive lineman Casey Rogers has signed an undrafted free agent contract with the New York Giants.

There are a lot of players in the NFL that weren’t drafted and Oregon defensive lineman Casey Rogers just became one of those players.

Rogers signed an undrafted free agent contract with the New York Giants Saturday once the draft was finished.

As a senior at Oregon, Rogers played in all 14 games and made two starts in his final season where he finished with 22 total tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and a career-high 1.5 sacks. He also played 328 total defensive snaps while earning a 72.6 overall grade from Pro Football Focus.

One of the highlights of his career came against Colorado where Rogers ran for 18 yards and a first down on a fake punt from the Ducks’ own 17-yard line in the second quarter in the huge win over the Buffaloes.

In his junior season in 2022, Rogers played in all 13 games while making 12 starts in first season with the Ducks. He recorded a career-high 34 total tackles, 15 solo, with 3.5 tackles for loss, two pass breakups and a fumble recovery.

Rogers came to Oregon after playing two seasons at Nebraska.

Report Card: Ducks play a near complete game against Colorado

It’s difficult to play a perfect football game, but against Colorado, Oregon played just about as well in every phase as it could have.

It was expected, but not quite like that.

Oregon came into the Colorado game as 21-point favorites and not only did the Ducks cover, they played perhaps the most complete game in the Dan Lanning Era. Oregon wasn’t just good. It was great in nearly every phase of the game in the 42-6 rout that could have been worse.

The Buffaloes’ offensive and defensive line were no match for the Ducks. They sacked Shedeur Sanders seven times. They held Colorado off the scoreboard for nearly 58 minutes. The offense went up and down the field at will in the first half to take a 35-0 lead.

This is what we’ve all wanted to see since Lanning arrived. Now let’s do it again.

Here’s the happy report card from yesterday’s Pac-12 opener.

Oregon’s 6-foot-5, 305-pound Casey Rogers gets big run on fake punt vs. Colorado

Oregon defensive lineman Casey Rogers had the run of a lifetime after Oregon ran a fake punt at their own 17 vs. Colorado.

We’ll say this for the Oregon Ducks — they were not at all afraid of the Colorado Buffaloes when Deion Sanders’ team came to Autzen Stadium. Early in the second quarter of Saturday’s game, and with Oregon already up 13-0, the call was for a fake punt — from Oregon’s own 17-yard line.

Because of that successful call, defensive lineman Casey Rogers got to rumble for 18 yards on what became a first down at the Oregon 35-yard line — and eventually, Oregon’s third touchdown of the day.

We applaud the stones to try a fake punt in that situation, and we’re always in favor of big guys getting the ball.

Casey Rogers, Tony Tuioti give Oregon Big Ten perspective after Nebraska experience

“The cathedrals of college football are in the Big Ten.”

While the 2023 college football season is what is the most pressing matter at the moment, it’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room after the Oregon Ducks announced that they would be leaving for the Big Ten conference a year from now.

How will things change for the Ducks? We know that they will be playing on a bigger stage, and against some of the best competition in the nation, but will they need to alter anything that they do? How drastically will the gameplan have to change in order to compete in that league against the Ohio State’s and Michigan’s of the world?

Fortunately, Oregon has a couple of people both on the current roster and the coaching staff who are familiar with Big Ten play. Defensive line coach Tony Tuioti and defensive lineman Casey Rogers both came from the Nebraska Cornhuskers a year ago, so they know what it’s like to play in the Big Ten.

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“There’s a lot of great traditions in the Big Ten,” Tuioti said. “I just think the fan base there and a lot of different places are exciting to be a part of. You can go to the Horseshoe, you can go to the Big House, you can go into Memorial Stadium, you know, there’s great tradition there.”

While the environments will be more grandiose, the play style might be a bit different as well. Football on the west coast is synonymous with flash and scoring, but in the Midwest, a certain physicality is expected.

“Big Ten football, you gotta be able to play the run and you got to be able to also get after some athletic quarterbacks too as well,” Tuioti said. “One great thing about being at Oregon is we can recruit nationally, and we can go get some of those players too, and be able to run with them and be able to you know, play in the trenches and beast out.”

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For Rogers, a player who spent three years at Nebraska before coming to Oregon, it’s the atmosphere of playing in the Big Ten that will stand out the most to Duck players an fans.

“The cathedrals of college football are in the Big Ten,” Rogers said. “You’ve got a lot of the historic and traditional football teams and stadiums that I think it will be cool for Oregon to play. Just as a fan aspect, a lot of the times Big Ten stadiums are 100,000, 90,000, 85,000 people, so it’s always fun to go to a big stadium like that.”

The thought of those stadium environments and marquee matchups is fun to think about. However, a more pressing matter is the 2023 season, which starts in less than a month with Portland State coming to town on September 2.

At the moment, that’s what has the attention of Tuioti and the rest of the staff in Eugene.

“You know, we’re excited about being in the Big Ten, but we got a tough Pac-12 schedule that we got to play,” Tuioti said. “We got a Heisman Trophy returner in our conference, and we got a really good quarterback up in Washington, so we got our work cut out for us in this league before it’s all said and done.”

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How Oregon’s DL looks with Jordan Burch’s commitment, Brandon Dorlus’ return

In the last week, former 5-star DL Jordan Burch committed to the Ducks, and Brandon Dorlus announced his return. Oregon’s DL could be special in 2023.

Going into the offseason for the Oregon Ducks, one of the biggest areas of concern was on the defensive line. While that unit played well in 2022, there were a lot of question marks about who would be returning for the 2023 season.

Defensive end DJ Johnson announced quickly after the end of the regular season that he would be declaring for the NFL Draft and opting out of the bowl game. It was also believed that Brandon Dorlus would do the same, and guys like Casey Rogers, Taki Taimani, and Popo Aumavae had yet to make their future intentions clear.

This past week has been an endless source of good news on that front for the Ducks. It started out on Sunday with Dorlus announcing that he would be coming back for one more year, and continued on Tuesday with Rogers announcing that he would do the same. Wednesday provided the fireworks, with South Carolina defensive lineman Jordan Burch, a former 5-star recruit and the No. 1 ranked player in the transfer portal, announcing that he would commit to the Ducks, giving Lanning one of the best DL in the nation.

We also got news from Aumavae, who has been granted an injury waiver and will be returning for one last season in Eugene as well.

With all of this news, I figured it would be a great time to look at the defensive line as a whole and try to project how things will shake up in 2023. Some of the aforementioned guys will likely announce their future intentions in the next week, and a few others may choose to transfer to other schools.

Let’s take a look at how things stand on the DL going into the offseason:

Oregon defensive lineman Casey Rogers back for more in 2023

Oregon defensive lineman Casey Rogers announced that he will be back for the 2023 season.

It’s refreshing to hear when a player stays at a program instead of figuratively pushing people aside in order to make their way into the transfer portal.

One player who is not entering the portal is Oregon defensive lineman Casey Rogers as he announced via Twitter that he will be in Eugene for another season.

The 6-foot-5, 285-pounder senior-to-be from Syracuse, NY had a nice first season with the Ducks after coming to Oregon from Nebraska. Rogers finished the 2022 year with 34 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and a fumble recovery.

Oregon will be more than happy to have Rogers back for the 2023 season as the Ducks continue to build their defensive line depth. They also received news that fellow D-lineman Brandon Dorlus will also return to anchor what should be one of the best lines in the Pac-12.

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Ex-Nebraska lineman headed west for 2022

More changes coming to Nebraska’s defense this season!!

A former Nebraska defensive lineman will be heading west to continue his college career. Casey Rogers announced on Wednesday that he has committed to Oregon and will play for new first-year coach Dan Lanning.  Rogers will also be playing for former Husker defensive line coach Tony Tuioti who had been in Lincoln for the last three seasons. He appeared in 19 games over the previous three years for Cornhuskers with 42 tackles and 1.5 sacks in his career. When Rogers announced that he had entered the transfer portal three weeks ago, I expressed concern due to the thin nature of the position group in the spring. With the additions of Ochaun Mathis and Devin Drew in the last week, that is no longer the case.  Rogers was initially expected to compete for a starting job in 2022. Still, with those two transfer additions to the Cornhusker’s defensive line, the writing was on the wall, and a starting job on the line this season was looking less likely. Rogers chose the Oregon Ducks over Auburn and Southern California.

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Former Nebraska defensive tackle commits to Oregon

Two days after saying Oregon was in his top three, former Nebraska defensive lineman Casey Rogers has committed to the Ducks.

A couple of days after he announced Oregon, USC and Auburn were among his final three, former Nebraska defensive tackle Casey Rogers has committed to the Ducks. He has two years of eligibility remaining. Rogers said he would make his decision “soon” and he obviously wasn’t kidding.

With the Cornhuskers, Rogers has played in 19 games and has been credited with 42 tackles and 1.5 sacks.

Rogers is 6-foot-5 and weighs 295 pounds and will be a good addition to the defensive line depth chart.  But Rogers is just one more example that once Lanning gets an athlete on campus and shows them what his program at Oregon has to offer, it’s difficult for them to say no.

Oregon in the running for Nebraska defensive lineman Casey Rogers

The Ducks have a Crystal Ball prediction to land Nebraska DL Casey Rogers. He announced his top-3 on Tuesday.

There are more athletes in the NCAA transfer portal than heroes coming through a Doctor Strange portal in Endgame.

One of those athletes is former Nebraska defensive lineman Casey Rogers, a 6-foot-5, 295-pounder from Old Farms, Conn. He visited the Oregon campus recently and announced the Ducks are among the three schools he is considering with Auburn and USC being the other two choices.

With the Cornhuskers, Rogers has played in 19 games and has been credited with 42 tackles and 1.5 sacks. He has two years of eligibility remaining. Rogers says he will make his decision “soon.”

Rogers may be the first of many players fleeing Nebraska as the NCAA has hit Scott Frost’s program with sanctions for a year.

In a press release, the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions said that a former Cornhuskers football special teams analyst was found to have provided “technical or tactical instruction” to players during film and practice sessions and offered tactical advice during games.

Rogers talks about entering Transfer Portal

Casey Rogers speaks publicly after entering the transfer portal.

Earlier this week we reported on the shocking news that defensive lineman Casey Rogers had entered his name in the transfer portal. Rogers was expected to complete for starting job on the defensive line in 2022. He discussed his decision in more detail on his Twitter page on Thursday. He wrote, “…at this time. I will be entering the NCAA transfer portal to explore all of my options to obtain the best possible education and continue playing football for my last two years of eligibility. I am hoping all doors are open and none have closed…”

The last line of his message provides a ray of hope for Husker fans. We’ve talked many times about how thin that position group is already is, and losing a potential starter at this date and time is not ideal. So there is still some hope that Rogers may return, but there is also the concerning news of him tweeting out that he has received scholarship offers from Arkansas, USC, Washington, Auburn, TCU, and Oregon State. So Rogers will have his pick of some fine programs.

It will also be interesting to see how the Husker coaching staff handles the announcement and if they make a push to keep Rogers or if they’ve already decided to go a different route. Whatever happens, the transfer portal has dramatically changed the balance of power in college athletics, and the players are now the ones holding all the cards. Of course, Rogers will sit and wait to see what happens before making his decision.

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