The Oregon Ducks 2018 football recruiting class has been celebrated as a potential top-10 class nationally, ranking as highly as No. 1 in the nation, and has been on pace to be the best collection of incoming talent in school history.
For months, however, that group was missing a quarterback.
Various names, including Texas four-star signal-caller Cameron Rising, crept up to no avail, leaving Oregon fans wondering what the answer would be for the future.
Then in a matter of days in early October, Tyler Shough, the nation's No. 4 pro-style quarterback, went from a North Carolina pledge who took a quiet unofficial visit to Eugene to a future Duck.