Oregon set to host 4-star IOL Juan Gaston for official visit

Recruits are starting to lock in official visits for the summer. Official visits can start in April, and a few are taken in the spring, but the bulk are taken in the month of June as summer heats up.

Atlanta Westlake four-star interior offensive lineman Juan Gaston will take a summer official visit to Oregon on June 21, per On3 Director of Recruiting Chad Simmons.

The 6-foot-7.5, 330-pound Gaston also has an official visit set for June 1 to Georgia. He told Simmons in November while taking unofficial trips that visits are “very important” to him and that he is “trying to see what environment I fit best in.”

Gaston is the nation’s No. 114 overall prospect and No. 4 interior offensive lineman in the 2025 cycle according to the On3 Industry Ranking — a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He is also the No. 16 recruit in Georgia.

Gaston currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $92K. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.

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Oregon’s 2025 recruiting class currently ranks No. 6 in the On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings with five commitments. The group is headlined by a trio of top-70 prospects: Tampa Bay Tech four-star wide receiver Dallas Wilson, San Diego Lincoln four-star quarterback Akili Smith Jr. and Pflugerville (Texas) Weiss four-star wide receiver Adrian Wilson.

Smith Jr. is the son of former Ducks star and NFL top-5 pick Akili Smith. Akili Jr. told On3 that his commitment to Oregon ‘means the world’ to him.

“It means the world to me to be committed to Oregon,” he told On3. “It has always been my dream to be a Duck. “Since I have been able to walk, my dad has had me in Oregon stuff, I have watched a lot of Oregon games and this is a dream coming true. I get to carry on my dad’s legacy, start my own legacy and at the same time play for a great program like Oregon and push for my dreams to reach the NFL.”

Concord (Calif.) De La Salle four-star defensive lineman Matthew Johnson is the newest addition to the class, committing to the Ducks last Friday.