Oregon added a five-star prospect to its recruiting class over the weekend, as safety Trey McNutt announced his commitment to the Ducks over Florida, Ohio State, Texas A&M and USC. McNutt is ranked No. 1 safety in the Class of 2025 by 247Sports and is considered the 23rd overall player on the team.
His commitment moved Oregon’s 2025 class from No. 11 to No. From Ohio, McNutt’s commitment to the Ducks is another testament to the state of the program’s national recruiting efforts under third-year coach Dan Lanning.
The 6-foot, 180-pound safety joins receiver Dakorien Moore of Duncanville, Texas, as the second five-star commit on the Oregon team, bringing his total to 15. Oregon finished with the team’s No. 4 of the country in the cycle of 2024 after obtaining the 9th grade in 2023.
McNutt shone as a young child in Shaker Heights in Cleveland, where he played both sides of the football. He racked up 61 tackles with 12 passes on defense last season while adding 611 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns on offense. Here’s more from 247Sports national analyst Allen Trieu:
Check out an athlete who brings that speed to the football field. A good high school receiver who shows movement and ball skills that will translate to defense but not without question the school could give him an offensive look. Played safety and cornerback. It will come down from the safety zone and support the run. A good tackler who will hit and drive through contact, not just pull down, and takes good angles. It could be a college free safety, nickel, or rotation for a safety. It is of sufficient size and length but not too high for the body. A tough player and that ability will translate anywhere the school wants to use him. Putting the body together and he should be ready to play at the beginning of his career as long as he can speed up the issues and roles that his school needs him to play. Projects as a high impact college player and potential first round pick.
McNutt posted multiple 100-meter times under 11 seconds and competed in the 2000-meter. In addition to McNutt from Ohio, the Ducks also received commitments from prospects in Texas, Maryland, Florida, California, Illinois, Nevada, Arizona and Washington from the 2025 class.
Lanning’s success in recruiting talent has made Oregon and its NIL endorsement from Nike co-founder Phil Knight the envy of other coaches.
“I wish I could get some of that NIL money [Knight is] sharing with Dan Lanning,” the Georgia coach Kirby Smart joked at SEC Media Days. “But that’s another message.”
Lanning, who was Georgia’s defensive coordinator under Smart from 2019 to 2021, already had a strong reputation as a recruiter before arriving at Oregon. The combination of those skills and Oregon’s investment in attracting top talent has made the Ducks a national contender as the program enters its first season in the Big Ten.
“Recruiting, it’s not one thing,” Lanning said during the Pate Country sit-in at Big Ten Media days. “It’s an assessment, it’s 321 different schools that we’ve reached this year during registration. It’s 23 satellite camps. It’s phone conversations, text messages. It’s relationship building. All these are built to be and the opportunity to sit at the table, to have a seat at the table at the end of being in that conversation, is NIL the most committed to doing it and finding ways to do it It’s part of the process of us but not the only part of our operation.
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