Oregon rises in On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings after latest commitment

After notching a top-10 recruiting class in Year 1 at Oregon, Dan Lanning and the Ducks are on pace to replicate or even surpass it in Year 2.

After some major commitments in the month of May, Oregon was a bit quieter in June. But July has the potential to be a big month for Lanning and Co., and that started on Friday with a commitment from Long Beach (Calif.) Poly four-star linebacker Dylan Williams over Michigan State.

“Player development is one major thing that set Oregon apart for me,” he told On3’s Chad Simmons. “If you play defense and you go to school on the West Coast, you want to go to Oregon. Coach Dan Lanning and Coach Tosh Lupoi develop players.

… They have great backgrounds, Coach Lanning is a defensive-minded head coach and I got there to play for them knowing I am going to get developed.”

The 6-foot-2, 205-pound Williams is the No. 158 overall prospect in the 2024 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He ranks as the nation’s No. 17 linebacker and the No. 21 recruit in California.

Williams moves the Ducks up in the top 10

His pledge elevated Oregon’s 2024 recruiting class to No. 8 in the 2024 On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings from No. 10, with the Ducks sitting at No. 1 in the Pac-12 midway through the summer.

They also remain strongly in contention for five-star offensive tackle Brandon Baker, elite California running back Nathaniel Frazier, lightning-fast receiver Gatlin Bair, four-star wideout Jeremiah McClellan and borderline five-star defensive lineman Aydin Breland, among others.

Their next major target set to come off the board though, is four-star linebacker Kamar Mothudi, who will announce on Tuesday, July 11.

Utah, Washington and Michigan State all got Mothudi on campus for official visits in June, but it was the Ducks who got the final chance to make an impression. Dan Lanning and Co. have been trending since the spring and are looking to close on a top target when he announces his decision. The Ducks are currently heavy favorites in the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM) for the nation’s No. 253 overall prospect.

Should they also land Mothudi, he and Williams will be their 11th and 12th four-star commitments in the 2024 cycle. The Ducks’ 2023 class, for reference, finished the cycle with one five-star and 17 four-stars, good enough for No. 8 in the team rankings.