Oregon RB Hughes to redshirt after limited play

Oregon caput manager Dan Lanning announced Wednesday that preseason All-American moving backmost Makhi Hughes has asked to redshirt this season.

Lanning said the squad is readying to grant Hughes' request.

Hughes was the No. 1 moving backmost and No. 6 wide subordinate successful ESPN's transportation rankings and transferred from Tulane past offseason aft a 1,401-yard, 17-touchdown run successful 2024. After earning first-team honors successful the American Athletic league successful back-to-back years, Hughes was expected to beryllium a cardinal portion of No. 2 Oregon's rushing attack.

Through 4 games with the Ducks, however, Hughes' relation has been limited. He's carried the shot 17 times for 70 yards and has yet to people a touchdown. The 5-foot-11, 210-pound redshirt inferior from Alabama did not question to Oregon's astir caller crippled astatine then-No. 3 Penn State, which the Ducks, ranked No. 6 astatine the time, won successful overtime.

The Ducks person alternatively relied connected a heavy moving backmost country led by freshman standout Dierre Hill Jr., who has emerged arsenic 1 Oregon's apical rushers (270 yards connected 26 carries) arsenic good arsenic mainstays inferior Jayden Limar and elder Noah Whittington.

Freshman Jordon Davison has been a invited summation arsenic well, totaling a team-high 7 rushing touchdowns. Oregon presently boasts a top-15 rushing onslaught successful the country.

Hughes missed the 2022 play owed to an wounded and took a aesculapian redshirt. Now that helium is acceptable to redshirt this season, helium volition person 2 years of eligibility remaining going into adjacent twelvemonth if helium decides to transportation erstwhile again.