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Oregon football’s Dan Lanning on 2024 recruiting class: ‘Most talented roster I’ve had’
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Though 2024’s version of National Signing Day was uneventful for Dan Lanning and the Oregon football team, it still put some finality on one of the Ducks’ highest-regarded recruiting classes in program history.
247Sports’ Composite rankings, which combines the rankings from 247Sports, Rivals.com, ESPN, and more to provide a consensus for team and player rankings, lists the Ducks as the third-best class in the country, behind just Georgia and Alabama.
Oregon’s 29-player class is comprised of 22 consensus four-star recruits, six three-star prospects, and a two-star punter.
West Linn’s Gage Hurych signs to play at Oregon
Over two dozen of those 29 players had signed during the early signing period in December, with just three-star kicker Gage Hurych of West Linn and four-star receiver Gatlin Bair signing during the latter signing day Wednesday.
Hurych is viewed as a five-star prospect and the No. 32 kicking recruit nationally by Chris Sailer Kicking, and rated as the No. 21 kicking prospect by 247Sports. The Oregon-native made eight field goals as a junior in 2022 and recorded touchbacks on 88% of his kickoffs.
Bair was one of the last major recruits available after originally committing to Boise State last year before a coaching change. Reportedly connected to Michigan and the Ducks, one of the fastest players in the 2024 class committed to Eugene just before signing day. Bair set track state records in Idaho with 10.15 100-meter and 20.56 200-meter times, though he told outlets he would likely not pursue track at Oregon.
The Idaho-native will not join Oregon’s roster until after he completes a two-year LDS mission. His NLI binds him to Oregon for one academic year, which means he’ll return to college football in 2026 free to join any program, but Bair told SBLive as long as Lanning remains at Oregon, he fully intends to honor his commitment.
The Ducks also have one of the top incoming transfer classes in the country, coming in at No. 3 in 247Sports’ team rankings. You can follow along with The Register-Guard’s transfer portal tracker.
Oregon football’s Dan Lanning on 2024 team: ‘We have a lot of talent on this roster’
With the 2024 class now mostly behind him, Lanning sat down with Oregon’s radio crew, Jerry Allen and Joey McMurray, to talk the Ducks’ latest class.
He didn’t mince words when talking about what 2024 could look like for the Ducks.
“We gotta go play games and see how we play as a team, but we have a lot of talent on this roster,” Lanning said. “It is the most talented roster I’ve had since we’ve been here.”
When asked whether Oregon’s 2024 team has a championship roster, Lanning said the work is just getting started on building for this fall.
“I do think that we have the pieces to the puzzle that are gonna allow us to have a really good team and what that looks like, time will tell,” he said. “It’s gonna be about our offseason work. You don’t win a game on paper. You’ve got to go practice, you got to become a team and that’s the process over the next few months for us is building a team.”
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Oregon football’s 2024 signing class
| Name / Position | Rating | School / Hometown | Height, Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatlin Bair / WR | ★★★★ | Burley / Burley, ID | 6-1, 194 |
| Aydin Breland / DL | ★★★★ | Mater Dei / Santa Ana, CA | 6-5, 290 |
| Devin Brooks / OL | ★★★★ | Clackamas / Clackamas, OR | 6-4, 290 |
| Fox Crader / OL | ★★★★ | Evergreen / Vancouver, WA | 6-6, 285 |
| Trent Ferguson / OL | ★★★ | West Salem / Salem, OR | 6-7, 300 |
| Dakoda Fields / CB | ★★★★ | Junipero Serra / Gardena, CA | 6-2, 185 |
| Aaron Flowers / DB | ★★★★ | Forney / Forney, TX | 6-0, 202 |
| Tionne Gray / DL | ★★★★ | Hazelwood Central / Florissant, MO | 6-6, 295 |
| Dillon Gresham / WR | ★★★★ | San Jacinto / San Jacinto, CA | 6-0, 175 |
| Gage Hurych / K | ★★★ | West Linn / West Linn, OR | 6-1, 175 |
| Jericho Johnson / DL | ★★★★ | Armijo / Fairfield, CA | 6-3, 366 |
| Jaxson Jones / EDGE | ★★★★ | Yuma Catholic / Yuma, AZ | 6-3, 215 |
| Tyler Kinsman / P | ★★ | Skyview / Nampa, ID | 6-5, 225 |
| Sione Laulea / CB | ★★★★ | College of San Mateo / San Mateo, CA | 6-4, 185 |
| Kingston Lopa / LB | ★★★★ | Grant Union / Sacramento, CA | 6-5, 190 |
| Jeremiah McClellan / WR | ★★★★ | Christian Brothers College / Saint Louis, MO | 6-0, 190 |
| JacQawn McRoy / OT | ★★★★ | Clay-Chalkville / Pinson, AL | 6-8, 365 |
| Luka Moga / QB | ★★★ | Sunnyslope / Phoenix, AZ | 6-2, 190 |
| Kamar Mothudi / LB | ★★★★ | Los Alamitos / Los Alamitos, CA | 6-2, 228 |
| Ify Obidegwu / CB | ★★★★ | St. Frances Academy / Baltimore, MD | 6-2, 190 |
| Ryan Pellum / WR | ★★★★ | Millikan / Long Beach, CA | 5-11, 170 |
| Brayden Platt / LB | ★★★★ | Yelm / Yelm, WA | 6-1, 222 |
| A.J. Pugliano / TE | ★★★ | North Medford / Medford, OR | 6-4, 220 |
| Jack Ressler / WR | ★★★ | Mater Dei / Santa Ana, CA | 5-11, 195 |
| Da’Jaun Riggs / RB | ★★★ | St. John’s / Washington, DC | 6-0, 202 |
| Elijah Rushing / EDGE | ★★★★ | Salpointe Catholic / Tucson, AZ | 6-6, 251 |
| Roger Saleapaga / WR | ★★★★ | Orem / Orem, UT | 6-4, 220 |
| Xadavien Sims / DL | ★★★★ | Durant / Durant, OK | 6-3, 275 |
| Dylan Williams / LB | ★★★★ | Long Beach Poly, CA | 6-3, 210 |
Alec Dietz covers University of Oregon football, volleyball, women’s basketball and baseball for The Register-Guard. You may reach him at adietz@registerguard.com and you can follow him on Twitter @AlecDietz.
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Distracted teen driver veers off Hwy 99W, fatally strikes pedestrian near Junction City
ROSEBURG, Ore. — A pedestrian was killed when a driver drifted from her lane of travel, striking a Junction City man, according to Oregon State Police.
At 4:48 p.m. on May 5, Oregon State Police responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian fatal crash on Highway 99W near milepost 110.5 in Lane County.
Police say a blue Hyundai Elantra driven by a 16-year-old female, was southbound on Highway 99W near Junction City when she became distracted, left the travel lane, and struck a pedestrian.
The pedestrian, Joel Robert Benjamin Coriell, 35, of Junction City, had been walking along the southbound shoulder of the highway.
Coriell was transported to an area hospital with serious injuries and later died at the hospital.
The driver of the Hyundai had reported minor injuries. She remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation, police said.
The highway was not impacted during the on-scene investigation, OSP stated.
OSP was assisted by the Junction City Police Department, Lane County Sheriff’s Office, and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
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Oregon Lottery Powerball, Pick 4 results for May 6
The Oregon Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at May 6, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from May 6 drawing
18-27-51-65-68, Powerball: 05, Power Play: 3
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from May 6 drawing
1PM: 8-9-4-6
4PM: 0-3-3-1
7PM: 3-7-1-9
10PM: 5-4-8-0
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Win for Life numbers from May 6 drawing
07-45-52-54
Check Win for Life payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Megabucks numbers from May 6 drawing
03-09-10-28-31-39
Check Megabucks payouts and previous drawings here.
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When are the Oregon Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 7:59 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 7:59 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday.
- Pick 4: 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. daily.
- Win for Life: 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Megabucks: 7:29 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by an Oregon editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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Oregon State Police sued for sharing data with immigration agencies
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and state legislators spoke Jan. 24 about recent immigration enforcement happening across Oregon. Here’s what Kotek said.
Rural Organizing Project, a statewide nonprofit based in Cottage Grove, filed a lawsuit May 5 against Oregon State Police in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleging that the agency is violating the state’s landmark sanctuary laws and sharing Oregonians’ personal data with federal immigration agents.
The nonprofit is asking the court to direct OSP not to share information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other immigration agencies, including driver’s licenses, driver history, driver’s license photographs, vehicle registration data, Social Security numbers and law enforcement records.
ROP claims that federal immigration agencies have repeatedly accessed Oregonians’ information over the past year. They point to two systems OSP operates: the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System and the state’s Law Enforcement Data System.
The complaint said data provided to OSP by NLETS in February showed authorities involved in immigration enforcement accessed Oregonians’ data more than 1.4 million times in the preceding year. ICE alone queried Oregon for the data 176,576 times, the complaint said. Homeland Security Investigations within the Department of Homeland Security queried 21,363 times, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection and DHS accounted for the remainder, the complaint said.
Those numbers do not include all queries of Oregonians’ data, lawyers added, as ICE and HSI agents in Oregon will access the same information separately through the LEDS terminal.
The complaint says OSP has the technical capacity to block immigration enforcement agencies from both systems, but has declined to do so.
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, along with U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, and Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, called on states across the country to stop sharing drivers’ data with federal immigration agencies in a November 2025 letter.
Other states, such as Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York, have stopped allowing federal agents to access their residents’ data, according to NLETS testimony to Congress in 2025, the complaint added.
The suit says NLETS provided OSP a spreadsheet listing the specific identification codes ICE uses in late 2025, after an OSP official asked how other states had blocked the agency in the system.
But in February, the complaint said, the agency indicated it would not restrict federal immigration authorities’ access to data via LETS or require federal authorities to use “Reason Codes” that would allow OSP to screen whether the query is for immigration-related purposes.
In a response sent to the Oregon Law Center on Feb. 1, replying to its tort claim notice, OSP said it had taken “reasonable steps” to improve its LEDS agreements with immigration authorities to require compliance with Oregon’s Sanctuary Law. Their letter said terminating the LEDS user agreements, which OSP signed with ICE and DHS in December 2025 and February, would prevent the federal agencies from accessing criminal justice information related to criminal investigations and other governmental purposes.
“If OSP terminated the user agreements, they could be obstructing ongoing criminal investigations,” the letter from OSP said.
OSP also said it did not have the ability to modify the NLETS system.
“Federal agents are storming into our communities, targeting people based on how they look, and disappearing our neighbors,” Martha Ortega, director of Immigrant Centers at Rural Organizing Project, said in a prepared statement. “Oregon State Police are helping them do it. When the state gives our private information to ICE, it is breaking the law and breaking Oregonians’ trust. How many families have been torn apart by Oregon State Police giving their names and photos to federal agents?”
The lawsuit cites testimony in federal court, detailed in a story by The Oregonian, where ICE agents spoke of staking out a neighborhood and randomly running vehicle license plates to find vehicle owners’ names and birthdates for the purpose of immigration enforcement.
“Oregon’s law has clearly prohibited this kind of information sharing for almost 40 years,” said Heather Marek, attorney at Oregon Law Center, which is representing the nonprofit. “Oregonians need Oregon State Police to respect the law and protect their data, immediately and permanently.”
In an email, a spokesperson for Oregon State Police said it would not be making any public comments related to the lawsuit while litigation was pending.
“OSP is committed to following Oregon Sanctuary Laws and has not taken any actions that would violate those laws,” Cpt. Kyle Kennedy added.
But, ROP said in its lawsuit that although the LEDS user agreements prohibit ICE-ERO and HSI from sharing data for immigration enforcement purposes, OSP cannot ensure compliance with the sanctuary laws nor can it reasonably assume compliance given the broader context of the current administration and activity.
More than 6,000 HSI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement duties, for example, the lawsuit said.
“In the current political and legal context, an agreement to provide resources and information to HSI is an agreement to provide resources and information to support immigration enforcement,” the complaint said.
Dianne Lugo covers the Oregon Legislature and equity issues. Reach her at dlugo@statesmanjournal.com on X @DianneLugo or Bluesky @diannelugo.bsky.social.
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