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Social media reacts to Chase Cota scoring his first touchdown as a Duck

Receiver Chase Cota scores his first touchdown as an Oregon Duck with a 49-yard strike at the end of the first quarter.

It only took four years and four games, but receiver Chase Cota has finally scored his first touchdown as an Oregon Duck. Nevermind the fact that he spent his first three seasons in Pasadena as a UCLA Bruin.

The son of Duck legend Chad Cota, Chase went 49 yards on a bubble screen that might have caught the Stanford defense napping. With the clock reaching towards zeros to signify the end of the first quarter, Oregon snapped the ball just before the clock ran out and take a 10-0 lead over Stanford.

While playing with Chip Kelly, Cota found the end zone six times. Oregon is counting on him increasing the number a few more times this season in Cota’s college swan song.

Chase Coda cherishes the opportunity to carry on family legacy at Oregon

It took four seasons, but Chase Cota is finally back home playing for his favorite childhood team.

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It took four seasons, but Chase Cota is finally back where he belongs.

Oregon recruited the son of famed safety Chad Cota when he was one of the top players in the state coming out of Medford. The Ducks really wanted the 6-foot-3, 210-pound receiver and it was a surprise when Chase chose to go play for UCLA instead.

But thanks to the pandemic year of 2020, Cota still has one more year of eligibility and he has decided to play his final season where his father helped lead the Gang Green defense.

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“It was definitely still a tough decision because it was like, as much as it’d be great to come back home, which I ended up doing, and playing for the Ducks after I grew up a Duck fan, it was also just like the best spot for the last year of college football,” he said. “I thought I could fit in the best and have an impact and set myself up for success.”

At UCLA, Cota caught 67 passes for 883 yards and scored six times. With his size and experience, Cota could have gone to a few other schools. Coming to Oregon wasn’t a sure thing. But Cota says that he clicked with the new coaching staff and coming back home was the right thing to do.

“I really liked Coach (Junior) Adams and Coach (Kenny) Dillingham. I just thought my communication with them and hearing what they had to say about the offense and the opportunity. It sounded really good,” he said.

The Ducks have a receiver room full of talent but are low on experience. They’re all either freshmen, redshirt freshmen, or sophomores, except junior Isaah Crocker. Having a senior with Cota can only be beneficial for all involved.

“It’s not like I came here because there are no receivers,” Cota said. “There’s a bunch of really good receivers here so just to be in a really good room and to think that I can help enhance it is the experience I wanted to be in.”

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WR Chase Cota, son of Oregon legend Chad Cota, to transfer from UCLA Bruins

As the son of Oregon legend Chad Cota, WR Chase Cota could likely be a target for the Ducks after entering the transfer portal and leaving UCLA.

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It feels like you can make an argument that just about every player to enter the transfer portal nowadays has a connection to the Oregon Ducks, and is potentially a target to be recruited to Eugene. When you have the reach that Dan Lanning and his staff do, as well as the legacy that Oregon has on the west coast, it’s hard to argue against, though.

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That is certainly true for one of the newest additions to the NCAA Transfer Portal. UCLA Bruins wide receiver Chase Cota announced over the weekend that he will be leaving the Los Angeles area and looking for a new school. Cota, who was a 4-star prospect coming from South Medford High School back in 2018, has a unique tie to the Ducks.

His dad, Chad Cota, is Oregon royalty. He was inducted into the Ducks’ Hall of Fame in 2012 after a career that left him being described as the “backbone of the ‘Gang Green’ defense” back in the early 1990s, paving the way for Oregon’s first Rose Bowl appearance in 37 years. Cota went on to have a successful NFL career with the Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints, Indianapolis Colts, and Saint Louis Rams.

So it’s safe to say that Chase Cota would be a recognized name if he were to come to Eugene. Heck, the Ducks heavily recruited him when he was coming out of high school and held offers from Alabama, Cal, Georgia, Louisville, Notre Dame, Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, USC, Utah, and several others. it even led to this remarkable recruiting graphic from the Ducks’ which featured him lining up against his dad out on the numbers.

The Ducks don’t go to that length for everyone, nor do they have the opportunity to.
From an X’s and O’s standpoint, recruiting Cota to Oregon makes a ton of sense, as well. The Ducks are currently thin at the wide receiver, and could desperately use the experience of a veteran pass-catcher who has 883 yards and 6 touchdowns in his 4 years with the Bruins.
We will see how heavily Oregon ends up recruiting Cota to come back to Eugene, but it is undoubtedly a story that would have Duck fans fired up about their newest player on the outside.
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