Adrian Jackson Leaving Oregon Football Program

Linebacker Adrian Jackson is leaving the Oregon Soccer program, a supply has confirmed to Geese Digest. Jackson was not on Oregon’s up to date roster that was launched on Tuesday morning, as Oregon prepares to kick off fall camp subsequent week.

It isn’t clear at the moment if Jackson is getting into the switch portal, or if he’s executed enjoying soccer altogether. 

Linebacker Adrian Jackson

Jackson was about to enter his redshirt junior yr and his fifth yr whole with the Geese. Popping out of Mullen Excessive Faculty in Denver, Colorado as an outdoor linebacker, Jackson was a four-star prospect and the top-ranked recruit in Colorado within the 2018 class.

Even in Oregon’s top-15 recruiting class in 2018 that featured future NFL expertise in Penei Sewell and Jevon Holland, Jackson was one of many high gamers in Oregon’s class and enrolled early.

Earlier than he parted methods with this system, Jackson had began to transition from exterior linebacker to inside linebacker. All through his time at Oregon, exterior linebacker has been a busy place.

Linebacker Adrian Jackson

Final season was Jackson’s most profitable partly due to star go rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux’s accidents leaving a niche within the Geese’ exterior linebacker group. Jackson recorded a career-best 16 tackles, with 4 of them coming within the 52-29 victory over Colorado final season.

Oregon has a recent set of outdoor linebackers getting into the fray this season in freshmen Anthony Jones and Emar’rion Winston, in addition to veterans D.J. Johnson and Mase Funa. 

So it is smart why Jackson was set to make the transfer to inside linebacker. Nonetheless, Jackson’s departure might imply that Oregon’s inside linebacker group is simply as stacked with expertise.

Noah Sewell have to be the primary identify talked about when speaking about Oregon’s inside backers. Forward of what’s going to probably be his last school season, Sewell is acknowledged as one of many high defensive gamers within the nation and is projected to be a primary spherical decide within the 2023 NFL Draft.

The Geese’ protection was riddled with accidents final season, which gave some gamers the possibility to climb the depth charts, specifically sophomore Jeffrey Bassa. Bassa began the season at sturdy security, and completed the season filling in at linebacker and having the fifth-most tackles on the staff.

Linebackers Keith Brown and Justin Flowe

Jackson LaDuke and Keith Brown are names to observe as effectively, as each missed time within the 2021 season and can be trying to reclaim their spots. However one identify that Duck followers will definitely be looking for is Justin Flowe.

The second-best recruit to ever decide to Oregon, Flowe has struggled to search out the sector because of harm. He solely performed within the season opener towards Fresno State, however Flowe was not possible to overlook with 14 tackles in that sport.

Jackson’s departure will definitely harm the Geese’ depth within the linebacker room. But when Sewell, Flowe and the remainder of the group is wholesome, the Geese nonetheless personal one of the proficient units of inside linebackers within the nation.

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