It’s not often that a player seemingly comes from nowhere to be the best in the country at his position. But that’s exactly what happened with Oregon Ducks center Jackson Powers-Johnson.
Powers-Johnson had the ingredients to be a good interior lineman. He was a three-year letterman as a wrestler in high school, and has a prototypical build as a stout-yet-athletic 6-foot-3, 320 pounds.
Yet he had played just 607 total snaps in 2021 and 2022 combined. They mostly came at right guard, but he also played some left guard, right tackle, center, and defensive tackle for the Ducks.