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Heading into Saturday’s 2 p.m. game against San José State, No. 20 Oregon football is once again the heavy favorite as it enters game three of the 2018 season. e Ducks dismantled Bowling Green and Portland State in their first two games of the year and it looks like they’ll do the same against the Spartans at Autzen Stadium.

San José State is 0-2 on the year following a 44-38 loss to UC Davis and a shutout 31-0 defeat at the hands of Washington State.

“It helps evaluating personnel because obviously you get to see the matchups,” head coach Mario Cristobal said of seeing the Spartans play a Pac-12 foe.

For both teams, Saturday’s matchup marks the end of nonconference play as the Ducks head into Pac-12 play and the Spartans begin their Mountain West schedule.

Tight end Josh Oliver is San José State’s main target on offense, making a team-leading 13 catches. While his 137 yards is the second-most on the team behind wide receiver Bailey Gaither — 140 yards — Oliver is certainly the offensive threat the Ducks will be keeping a close eye on come Saturday.

“He’s a really big player,” Cristobal said. “A big target

with a good catch radius, he runs really well.”

San José State also plays with two quarterbacks.

Cristobal says both can pass well but one likes to leave the pocket more than the other. “ ey do a good job of creating space,” he said. “ ey do a good job of getting the ball to their athletes in space.”

Oregon’s offense, which has found success early on in the run game with six different running backs, will have a different test in an experienced San José State defensive line entirely comprised of seniors.

Oregon running backs coach Jim Mastro said the San José State defense tackles well but ends up tired by the end of each of its opening games due to not enough depth to manage the high number of plays.

“One hundred plays in their opening games and 97 against Wazzu — that’s a lot of plays,” Mastro said. “You watch them early in the games, they’re dang good because they get worn down.”

Oregon’s run game could go wild against San José State on Saturday, but the wide receivers will need to improve after some dropped passes in the first two games of the season as the Ducks prepare for No. 9 Stanford just one week later.

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OREGON OREGON OFFENSE PLAYER # Penei Sewell No. 58 Shane Lemieux No. 68 Jake Hanson No. 55 Dallas Warmack No. 75 Calvin Throckmorton No. 54 Jacob Breeland No. 27 Dillon Mitchell No. 13 Johnny Johnson III No. 3 Jaylon Redd No. 30 Tony Brooks-James No. 20 Justin Herbert No. 10

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PLAYER # Troy Kowlaski No. 79 Jake Colman No. 72 Trevor Robbins No. 57 Deano Motes No. 78 Jack Snyder No. 55 Josh Oliver No. 89 JaQuan Blackwell No. 11 Justin Holmes No. 9 Bailey Gaither No. 84 Malike Roberson No. 20 Montel Aaron No. 7

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Oregon Ducks tight end Jacob Breeland (27) warms up before the game.

e Justin Herbert era started five weeks into the 2016 season with Oregon trailing Washington State 51-26. Although there wasn’t much to cheer about, the true freshman quarterback entered the game for his first collegiate action and by the end of his first drive, he flashed the skills of a versatile playmaker who utilized his tight ends almost to perfection.

On his second snap, Herbert found tight end Jacob Breeland for a 63-yard pass. ree plays later, he found Breeland again for seven yards. After an incompletion, the quarterback got his first career touchdown on a 4-yard rush. is was a glimpse into how important tight ends would become to a Herbert-led offense.

One tight end who was expected to take a major role in the offense was redshirt sophomore Cam McCormick. After a leg injury against Bowling Green, McCormick is out for the season, leaving Breeland with the most experience in the Oregon offense.

Tight ends accounted for 787 of the 1,936 passing yards from Herbert’s freshman year, due in most part to the immense talent the position possessed. e group was made up of three eventual NFL tight ends: Pharaoh Brown, Evan Baylis and Johnny Mundt.

After the switch from Dakota Prukop to Herbert, Breeland was able to crack his way into the lineup, finishing the year with 123 yards. rough an injury-plagued sophomore season, Herbert had 331 yards to his tight ends. With another 54 thus far this season, his career total is now 1,172.

Tight ends are a hybrid between an offensive tackle and a wide receiver. If the quarterback is the king, tight ends are the bishops, moving across the field attacking the opposing team, yet ready to stay back and protect when necessary.

“We’ve got multiple guys who can step up,” Herbert said. “I’m just as confident in them as I was with

Cam. Just a bunch of weapons and they make my job easier.”

Ryan Bay, a reserve tight end; Kano Dillon, a graduate-transfer from South Florida; and Hunter Kampmoyer, a former defensive lineman, are the three tight ends that were given opportunities to help Breeland fill the McCormicksize hole.

Breeland, like many tight ends, was a wide receiver in high school and had to learn blocking from scratch upon his arrival. e improvement in blocking placed Breeland in the starting lineup last season ahead of Cam McCormick.

“I came in really bad at blocking at first,” Breeland said. “ rough these years working with [head coach Mario Cristobal], he’s really challenged me and made me a lot better at blocking.”

Dillon is the veteran of the group. e redshirt senior Cristobal jokingly called a “36-year old” had 499 receiving yards and four touchdowns while at USF. In Eugene, Dillon has 47 yards

thus far and scored a touchdown against Portland State by carrying four Viking players on his back.

Although he is a redshirt junior, Bay might be the least known of the bunch. Lauded by Cristobal for his “tremendous training camp,” Bay should see the field a lot more.

“He may be one of our best blockers,” Cristobal said. “He’s strong, physical and does a great job of catching the football.”

Kampmoyer is in his first season at tight end. Making the switch in spring, the redshirt sophomore has one catch for four yards in his first season on offense.

Although touchdowns are what get the glory, tight ends understand the long list of what makes them so valuable. Regardless of who leads the team in snaps, the unselfish group is poised to make its mark.

“Running, catching the ball and scoring touchdowns is the best feeling, but I like to get my hand in the dirt and get dirty in the trenches, too,” Breeland said.

“Whatever helps the team.”

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SAN JOSÉ STATE Tight End:

Defensive Tackle:

Josh Oliver

Boogie Roberts

Oregon dominated Portland State 62-14 last week. But both of the opposing team’s touchdowns came from tight end Charlie Taumoepeau, including one for 71 yards. It was the only blight on an otherwise clean performance from Oregon’s defense. San Jose State’s best receiver is a tight end, so will the Ducks learn and adjust? Or, could this possibly be a weakness in Oregon’s defense? Oliver leads San José State in receptions but has not recorded a touchdown catch. His 6-foot-5, 250-pound frame makes him a big target and hard for any safety to handle.

e winner of a football game is often a team that can control the line of scrimmage. If San José State is going to pull off an upset, or even make this game close, a strong performance from Roberts is key. ey don’t have a lot of talent up front, but he leads them in tackles for loss and sacks — just 2.5 and one, respectively. Roberts might need to match those numbers in this game alone, but that would go a long way in helping the Spartan defense.

OREGON Running Back:

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Safety:

Travis Dye

Nick Pickett

Linebacker Troy Dye’s younger brother broke a 49-yard touchdown run against Portland State, and the freshman needs to capitalize on a quality performance to see more playing time.

Tony Brooks-James and CJ Verdell appear to be the top two running backs, but four guys behind them are still competing for playing time. Travis should get more opportunities for carries, but so should everyone else when the Ducks pull away from San José State. He’ll need to maximize his reps if he wants to cement himself into the rotation.

At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Pickett might be Oregon’s best option for covering Oliver. He’s Oregon’s biggest safety and has started the first two games. But he is still listed with Brady Breeze and Mattrell McGraw as (ORs) for the starting position. Playing an NFL prospect in Oliver should help decide who gets more playing time.

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RUNNING BACKS COACH JIM MASTRO TALKS ROTATION

Running backs coach/run game coordinator Jim Mastro.

BY: Jack Butler @Butler917 | PHOTO: Sarah Northrop Oregon football turns its head to San José State for week three of the season after a 62-14 defeat of Portland State. It will be another opportunity for the Ducks to work out the kinks before No. 9 Stanford come to Autzen Stadium for week four.

Right now, Oregon is juggling six running backs: Tony Brooks-James, C.J. Verdell, Travis Dye, Cyrus Habibi-Likio, Darrian Felix and Taj Griffin. While Brook-James is the starter, and Verdell seems to be right behind him, all six are fighting for touches. It’s one of the storylines to watch as Oregon faces its final nonconference opponents.

Here is running backs coach Jim Mastro talking to the media about the rotation: Q: How are the guys handling this rotation?

A: “Well, they understand that competition is awesome. It keeps practices’ tempo up, and they

know to play they got to produce. So, competition is the greatest thing you can have in a room.”

Q: Does there come a point where you feel like you have to tailor down the rotation a bit?

A: “You know, we’ll see. Right now they’re all doing some things really well, so we’ll see as we go along. We’d like to narrow it down, but you never know.”

Q: Everyone is a little different in that group.

Are we going to see everyone in that group all season long?

A: “I don’t know about that. is week we probably will just because they’re doing some things nice in practice. ey’re practicing hard.

It’s hard to take a kid’s playing time away when they’re doing everything you’ve asked them to do. It’s a great problem to have. I’ve said that for years, you can’t just have one. If you want to have

a good rushing attack and a balanced rushing attack, you have to have more than one guy.

Right now we have five, six we feel comfortable with.”

Q: What’s the determining factor that gets a guy ahead of the next?

A: “Production. A guy that just is hot. [Verdell] was hot last week in the second half so he played a little bit more.”

Q: You’ve got two games to see how this running game is going. How happy are you with it?

A: “Very happy. We’re asking them to run a little bit different than they have in the past. It’s not as much feast and famine. We don’t want a bunch of tackle for losses. We’re more downhill and in between the tackles. ... It’s kind of a different mentality than what they’ve had in the pass.”

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TATTOO BY: Maggie Vanoni @maggie_vanoni PHOTOS: Sarah Northrop

Tony Brooks-James shows his favorite tattoo, a feather he got last Christmas with his sister.

Six different colored roses spread across Tony Brooks-James’ chest to represent the six women who helped raise him, including his mom.

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On his last day at home in Gainesville, Florida, before moving to Eugene to start college and play football for the University of Oregon, Tony Brooks-James was in his room changing his shirt when his mom walked in and spotted his tattoo.

He quickly pulled a shirt over and tried to play it off, knowing she wouldn’t approve.

For two months, Brooks-James had tried to hide the hand-sized, colored tattoo on his right chest.

His mom had asked him numerous times why his shirts were bloody on that side of his body, but he had remained quiet.

Standing in his bedroom, he could no longer hide the tattoo. His mom, clearly upset, didn’t talk to him on the plane ride to Eugene.

Now, five years later, the running back’s chest features a matching tattoo on the left side, and six different colored roses spread across to represent the six women who helped raise him, including his mom.

“It’s a constant reminder of who I do it for,” Brooks-James said. “Every time I look in the mirror, I see it on my chest. I do this for my grandma, my auntie and my mama, my sister, my cousin.”

Underneath the jerseys and all the padding, a handful of Oregon’s football players, just like BrooksJames, use tattoos to represent their identity and motivation.

Honoring culture and family Austin Faoliu, a sophomore defensive lineman, knew when he was 18 that he wanted a tattoo of his family’s flower-like crest to represent his Japanese and Samoan heritage.

Six days of multiple-hour sessions later, Faoliu’s left arm became a sleeve of traditional Japanese and Samoan designs, including fish scales and shark teeth. Besides the family crest, Faoliu gave the tattoo artist permission to design the rest.

“Each design on my tattoo has significant story behind it,” he said.

“It’s basically telling the stories of how our ancestors lived in the past and our people; what we base our tradition off of and that’s love, God, family, respect, all those things.”

Both of his brothers have similar tattoos, including his younger brother Andrew Faoliu, who also plays on the defensive line for Oregon.

“Every time before I go out to a game, I always look down and know what I’m doing it for,” Austin Faoliu said. “It’s a good reminder for me.”

With such a diverse collection of culture on Oregon’s roster, some players choose to represent their heritages through the ink on their bodies.

On the right arm of senior inside linebacker Kaulana Apelu, a tattoo

Oregon running back Cyrus Habibi-Likio pays tribute to his family by a small tattoo sleeve on his forearm with Polynesian patterns such as fish nets, vines, waves and shields.

wraps from his wrist to his shoulder, showcasing his family’s Hawaiian background.

“It’s like a spiral,” he said, “because like in life, nothing is always straight. It’s just always winding, and you never know, you just keep your head straight.” e tattoo includes Hawaiian traditional symbols and 13 flower buds to represent his 13 grandparents on his mom’s side.

He surprised his mom by having her name tattooed in cursive underneath his bicep where the spiral ends.

Apelu also has a tattoo of the Hawaiian spiritual animal, the ‘aumakua, on his left forearm. e spiritual shark acts as a guardian animal over his family. e decision to honor one’s family heritage runs

deep on the team.

Running back Cyrus HabibiLikio pays tribute to his family by a small tattoo sleeve on his forearm with Polynesian patterns such as fishing nets, waves and shields.

His mom’s last name, Habibi, which means “my sweet love,” is written in Arabic on the outside of the tattoo, while the inside consists of a skull with a gold tooth and a blue, third eye.

Habibi-Likio explained the significance of the sleeve’s skull: “Back in the day, like on the islands, my family had this tribe and they all wore skull masks and they were warriors. In our culture, all the elders had gold teeth. ey actually removed their teeth and put in gold caps.”

As for the eye, Habibi said, “It’s

the eye that protects you from all bad eyes and jealous people.” e small sleeve is just one of the redshirt freshman’s six tattoos.

Habibi-Likio was just 14 years old when he got first tattoo; the phrase “I am 3” on the inside of his left wrist. To him, three is not only his lucky number but represents his religious belief: “God first, family second and me third.”

By wearing a thick wristband, he hid the tattoo from his mom for four years. She finally found out when she saw him sleeping without the wristband.

Habibi-Likio tried to convince his mom the tattoo was fake, telling her it was made out of sharpie and baby powder. Four months later, she asked to see

his wrist and she got upset again when the tattoo was still there.

She approves of his tattoos now, as long as they have significant meaning.

“I don’t really do them too much for show,” Habibi-Likio said. “You can see it and just think it’s regular stuff, but just the meaning, it reminds me a lot of my family and where I came from and just humbles me and that’s why I get them.”

Brooks-James got the tattoo on his chest to honor his family as well.

“In my eyes, if you get a tattoo, odds are that tattoo means a lot to you and it shows who you are,” he said. “I know you can just put it on a notecard and put it on your window, but for me, I want to get something on my body that

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means a lot to me. And to me, that’s my family.”

Last Christmas, Brooks-James got a matching tattoo with his younger sister, Kalia. e two both got red feathers on their shoulders: his says, “my sister protector,” and hers says, “my brother’s keeper.”

Representing the Pacific Northwest e face of a grizzly bear growls in front of Mount Adams on the right shoulder of junior offensive lineman Shane Lemieux. To Lemieux, from Yakima, Washington, the grizzly bear represents more than the Pacific Northwest.

“Everyone used to call me bear when I was little because I was a big kid,” Lemieux said. “A bear just resembles the most powerful. ey always protect their cubs. I have a little sister and I’ve always been really protective of my little sister because my mom was a single mom.”

Lemieux also has the American flag with the saying, “Don’t tread on me,” in full color. e tattoo matches one his dad has had since he was in the Marine Corps.

Since both tattoos are fairly large and include shading and color, Lemieux said he has spent about $2,000 total on his arms. e tattoos have given Lemieux a way to express himself.

“A lot of people hate on tattoos like, ‘Why would you have that on your arm when you can just say you’re loyal?’” he said. “I think it’s artwork, too. A lot of people say that every tattoo has to have

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a meaning, but at the same time, I think tattoos are really cool-looking, they’re really aesthetic. I think it’s just showing how we can express ourselves more through art.”

Fellow offensive lineman Calvin rockmorton got his first tattoo as a high school graduation gift from his parents. e tattoo, of Mount Rainier on his right bicep, took a total of eight and a half hours to complete. rockmorton planned the design for about two-to-three years before actually getting the ink.

“I was really nervous,” rockmorton said. “Obviously, getting something permanent like that on your body is a little nerve-wracking. But that’s why I spent so much time thinking about it and really planning what I actually wanted, and then I really didn’t have any fear or doubts about it once it was actually on.” is past June, rockmorton, a junior at Oregon, got his second tattoo. e new one took nearly seven and a half hours to complete and it is a bear on the inside of his right arm. rockmorton said he wants to get a sleeve at some point. He wants to add to his Pacific Northwest aesthetic by getting a design of Bigfoot, a creature he believes exists somewhere in the forests of Washington and Oregon. rockmorton sees his tattoos as a way to show his own narrative.

“I knew it was a way to express who I am,” he said. “And that’s why I’ve always really gravitated towards them because I think it’s a way to tell a story about yourself without saying anything.”

“It’s [the third eye] the eye that protects you from all bad eyes and jealous people,” says Cyrus Habibi-Likio, about the significance of the inner part of his arm tattoo.

On the right shoulder of junior offensive lineman Shane Lemieux, the face of a grizzly bear growls in front of Mount Adams. e bear invokes themes of the Pacific Northwest along with his childhood nickname of “Bear.”

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JACKSON’S ONE START SHOWS A PROMISING FUTURE BY: Jack Butler @Butler917 | PHOTO: Henry Ward

Ducks inside linebacker Adrian Jackson (29) walks onto the field during the Sept. 8 game against Portland State University.

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Injuries suck. But like many bad things, they come with a silver lining.

In football, when starters get hurt, players behind them get an opportunity to prove themselves. So when Oregon linebacker La’Mar Winston Jr. got hurt in week one against Bowling Green, an opportunity arose for freshman Adrian Jackson.

When Winston Jr. went down, Jackson thought, “Oh yeah, it’s my time, so I better make it work.”

He split reps with sophomore Keith Simms, but against Portland State the next week, he earned the start. Winston Jr. is ready for Oregon’s game against San José State, but in his absence, Jackson proved he is a versatile defender with a bright future.

“I thought Adrian came in and played pretty good,” defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt said after the Bowling Green game. “We played Adrian at both places — inside and outside. at’s pretty hard for a true freshman that never played linebacker in his life.”

And he needs to keep playing linebacker. Jackson played safety, cornerback and wide receiver in high school.

Linebacker was new for him when he arrived at Oregon, and they were rotating him between outside and inside, which makes a big difference

in a 3-4 scheme.

“I’m not going to lie, in fall camp I was a little bit iffy about my performance, but as we went on and on, as we got closer to the season, I started to feel comfortable out there and that I can impact the defense in a very good way,” Jackson said.

Jackson felt he played well in his start against Portland State. He was a freshman making his first start, but he wasn’t too nervous, and he made sure he wasn’t.

“I feel if you go into a football game panicking or thinking too much then you’ll have a bad performance,” Jackson said.

Jackson felt he could’ve been more aggressive, but overall he completed his one goal.

“I feel like as a true freshman, you just don’t want to let your team down,” he said. “I was trying to do my best, and I feel like I came out of it with a good result.”

Jackson said he only had one mental error, and when it happened it was his teammate — Winston Jr. — who was there to help him.

“He was telling me that you’ve got to learn from the mistake, so La’Mar was right there,” Jackson said. “He was teaching me everything. He was hand-in-hand with me throughout the whole process.”

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