{"id":122926,"date":"2025-06-12T02:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122926\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:35:10","slug":"pff-ranks-oregon-ducks-a-top-ten-secondary-for-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122926\/","title":{"rendered":"PFF Ranks Oregon Ducks a Top-Ten Secondary For 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oregon\u2019s secondary will look a lot different in 2025 than it did in 2025. After losing all five of its starting defensive backs, secondary coach Chris Hampton<\/a> and cornerbacks coach Rashad Wadood are tasked with fielding a group that can help Oregon compete for a national championship.<\/p>\n

The group was solid last season, but it wasn\u2019t enough to get by the likes of Ohio State\u2019s Jeremiah Smith<\/a> and Emeka Egbuka<\/a>, who eventually went on to win the national championship. It also didn\u2019t play well enough to defeat Washington in the 2023 season.<\/p>\n

Jabbar Muhammad<\/a>, Nikko Reed,<\/a> Dontae Manning<\/a>, Kobe Savage<\/a> and Tysheem Johnson<\/a> are all gone. But Oregon\u2019s begun to produce and develop more NFL-caliber defensive backs in recent years and the Ducks are now well-positioned to continue that trend entering this season.<\/p>\n

Max Chadwick of Pro Football Focus<\/a> is particularly bullish on Oregon\u2019s secondary and ranked the Ducks sixth trailing Ohio State, Clemson, Notre Dame, Alabama and Texas entering the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what he had to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ducks added the best defensive back from the transfer portal when they brought in\u00a0Purdue\u00a0safety\u00a0Dillon Thieneman<\/a>. He\u2019s PFF\u2019s No. 3 safety in America, and his 89.4 PFF grade since 2023 ranks fourth among returning FBS safeties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two other transfers may start in Oregon\u2019s secondary: cornerback Theran Johnson (Northwestern) and slot corner Jadon Canady<\/a> (Ole Miss). Johnson was ninth among Big Ten corners with a 79.4 coverage grade in 2024, while Canady\u2019s eight pass-breakups tied for eighth among SEC cornerbacks. Jahlil Florence<\/a> played only three snaps in 2024 due to a knee injury, but he earned a 72.6 grade in 2023 across 392 snaps for the Ducks. Oregon also has plenty of former highly-rated recruits to provide depth, including a couple five-star freshmen in cornerback Na\u2019eem Offord <\/a>and safety Trey McNutt<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon\u2019s secondary will look a lot different in 2025 than it did in 2025. After losing all five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5791,7,29926,29927,49,48,869,21886,1788,29928],"class_list":{"0":"post-122926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-dillon-thieneman-23-westfield","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jadon-canady-21-sandalwood","11":"tag-jahlil-florence-22-lincoln","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-or","15":"tag-oregon-ducks-eugene","16":"tag-regwall","17":"tag-theran-johnson-21-north-central"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114668065551641958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}