Will Oregon Ducks be able to contain Cal’s Jaydn Ott?

For Oregon’s protection to indicate important progress in opposition to Cal it should include Jaydn Ott.

The previous Geese commit leads the Golden Bears in all-purpose yards, with 618 dashing yards and 5 touchdowns and 133 receiving yards and two scores coming into immediately’s recreation (12:30 p.m., FS1).

“We now have to have the ability to take away what they do greatest,” Oregon coach Dan Lanning stated. “We’re going to must play to a few of the tendencies and attempt to consider that as we undergo the sport. However they definitely have confirmed that they will. In order that’s one thing we’re going to have to organize for. … He does a great job working the ball. He runs with nice physicality and energy and that exhibits up.”

Ott, a real freshman, had 19 carries for 274 yards and three touchdowns in opposition to Arizona however has simply 155 yards on 47 carries mixed over the past three video games.

He’s nonetheless the precise sort of dual-threat ability participant Oregon’s protection has had bother with, notably amongst linebackers in protection.

“He’s a extremely good working again, can do all of it,” security Bennett Williams stated. “Particularly for a freshman fairly spectacular. Laborious runner. He’s going to present us lots of totally different appears; lots of empty appears the place we are able to’t simply deal with him as a again that you just don’t actually take note of. Him as a receiver and as their major again within the backfield, he’s a giant weapon for them in opposition to us that we’re going to must cease not simply the cross recreation, not simply the run recreation however all the things all collectively.”

Oregon (6-1, 4-0 Pac-12) has been challenged by working backs within the passing recreation this season. Georgia’s Kenny McIntosh, Washington State’s Nakia Watson and Stanford’s Casey Filkins every led their groups in receiving yards in opposition to the Geese.

Stopping Ott from becoming a member of that group can be a major signal of progress for a cross protection that has struggled all season.