Oregon is making a strong early push for one of the top interior offensive linemen in the class of 2028, and two assistant coaches are already part of the pitch.
Garrett Rosenberger, a 6-foot-4, 280-pound lineman from Chillicothe, Ohio, said Oregon has been one of the schools in heavy contact since June 15. The Ducks offered him on July 2, and he told Rivals recruiting analyst Allen Trieu that he wants to get to Eugene for a game this fall, along with 10 other schools he’s hoping to see.
“Since June 15th, I have heard a lot from Oregon, Florida, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and NC State,” Rosenberger said. “Some of the coaches that I have a good relationship with are Coach Tujague from NC State, Coach Walk and Coach Terry from Oregon, and Coach Trautwein from Florida.”
At Oregon, the coaches Rosenberger pointed to were assistant offensive line coach Ryan Walk and offensive line coach A’Lique Terry. Those relationships could matter when his recruitment starts to get serious.
Rosenberger is rated as a three-star prospect and is ranked by Rivals as the No. 33 interior offensive lineman in the 2028 class.
For Oregon, the timing matters. The Ducks still do not have a commitment in the 2028 class, even as they continue to stack up major momentum in 2027. That group already includes 24 commitments, with 16 of those prospects rated as four- or five-stars.
Rivals currently has Oregon’s 2027 class at No. 4 nationally and No. 1 in the Big Ten. If that ranking holds, it would mark four straight recruiting cycles under Dan Lanning that finish inside the national top four.
That recruiting surge lines up with what Oregon has done on the field under Lanning. Since his arrival in Eugene in 2022, the Ducks have kept moving closer to a national title game.
They won 10 games in Lanning’s first season, matching the previous year’s total. In 2023, Oregon went 11-1 in the regular season and was one win away from the College Football Playoff, but a loss to Washington in the Pac-12 Championship kept the Ducks out of the final four-team field.
When the playoff expanded to 12 teams in 2024, Oregon would have been in anyway. The Ducks went unbeaten in the regular season, won the Big Ten championship, and entered the playoff at 13-0 and No. 1 in the country before falling in the quarterfinal.
In 2025, Oregon returned to the playoff as the No. 5 team and advanced to the semifinal, where it was eliminated by the Indian Hoosiers.
Now the question is whether Oregon can keep climbing in 2026 and finally reach the title game.
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