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WR Brenden Rice chooses USC Trojans over Oregon Ducks

Former Colorado WR Brenden Rice chose the USC Trojans. Tough for Duck fans, who definitely wanted to see NFL legend Jerry Rice’s son in Eugene.

Oregon Duck fans have to feel a little disappointed on Tuesday morning, with the news coming out that former Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver Brenden Rice, the son of NFL legend Jerry Rice, would be committing to the USC Trojans rather than coming to Eugene.

Rice, a 6-foot-2 former 4-star recruit, chose the Buffs over the Ducks when he was first recruited. At Colorado, Rice had 419 yards and 5 touchdowns in 14 games played.

The WR position is one of major need for the Ducks, who saw Johnny Johnson III, Devon Williams, and Jaylon Redd leave for the NFL draft this year, as well as Mycah Pittman leaving in the transfer portal. There are a number of young and talented pass-catchers on the roster, but adding a proven playmaker like Rice would have been a massive boost for the position group.

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5 takeaways from Oregon’s uninspiring win over the Cal Golden Bears

Travis Dye was spectacular, but penalties were once again an issue, and the offense elicited boos. Here are our major takeaways from Oregon’s 24-17 win over Cal.

It’s tough to walk away from Oregon’s 24-17 win over the California Golden Bears with much more confidence than you had going into it. The Ducks lost their first game of the season two weeks ago against Stanford, and a well-placed bye week gave them an opportunity to correct mistakes and get back on the right track entering the second half of the slate.

On Friday night, it didn’t look like they made many improvements at all, needing a 4th quarter comeback led by QB Anthony Brown in order to escape with a victory against a now 1-5 team that is near the bottom of the Pac-12 power rankings. For the second straight game, Oregon’s defense faced a 4th and goal situation with less than 5 seconds on the clock and their inferior opponent looking for a chance to send the game into overtime.

The result was better against Cal on Friday, but it’s still not a situation that you want your top-10 ranked team to repeatedly be in.

A win is a win, and the Ducks live to fight another day, but the questions we had about this team going into the bye week have only been magnified. There were some good moments on Friday and some bad. Here are a few takeaways we had from Oregon’s close win over Cal: