{"id":258490,"date":"2025-08-03T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/258490\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:21:10","slug":"no-1-cb-davon-benjamin-commits-to-oregon-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/258490\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 CB Davon Benjamin Commits to Oregon Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 cornerback in the 2026 class will play his college football in Eugene. 2026 4-star Westlake Village (Calif.) Oaks Christian cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/davon-benjamin-162776\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davon Benjamin<\/a> has committed to Oregon. <\/p>\n<p>He announced his pledge to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/dan-lanning-134322\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Lanning<\/a> and the Ducks on Saturday, choosing Oregon from a top group that also included Texas, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington. The Southern California standout took official visits to each of his finalists leading up to his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is the No. 22 player in the Rivals300 rankings, the No. 1 cornerback and the No. 3 prospect in California. In 12 games last season he logged 45 tackles and intercepted six passes, three of which he returned for a touchdown and forced two fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the 17th verbal commitment for the Ducks this cycle and the first cornerback commit for Oregon. Benjamin now joins Rivals Industry 5-star Las Vegas (Nev.) Bishop Gorman safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jett-washington-180092\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jett Washington<\/a>, 4-star Winter Garden (Fla.) The First Academy safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/devin-jackson-180857\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Jackson<\/a> and 4-star Melbourne (Fla.) Eau Gallie safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/xavier-lherisse-180195\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Lherisse<\/a> in the Ducks\u2019 secondary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust kept it real,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/oregon-ducks\/news\/nations-no-1-cornerback-davon-benjamin-previews-oregon-ducks-official-visit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin told ScoopDuck of how Oregon separated themselves in his recruitment<\/a>. \u201cKept it real ever since they recruited me. Really just think about the big picture. How they\u2019re gonna use me down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Benjamin in the fold, Oregon\u2019s Rashad Wadood and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/chris-hampton-135002\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hampton<\/a> are likely finished recruiting the defensive back position in the 2026 cycle and boast one of the best secondary haul\u2019s in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Southern California has always been a priority for Oregon on the recruiting trail, and Benjamin is the latest recruiting win for the Ducks, joining 4-star Ventura (Calif.) linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/tristan-phillips-238776\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Phillips<\/a> and 4-star San Diego (Calif.) Lincoln EDGE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/prince-tavizon-240542\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Tavizon<\/a> in Oregon\u2019s class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 1 cornerback in the 2026 class will play his college football in Eugene. 2026 4-star Westlake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[33266,7,869,21886],"class_list":{"0":"post-258490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-davon-benjamin-26-oaks-christian","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-or","11":"tag-oregon-ducks-eugene"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114964810296748341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258490","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=258490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}