Wake up Duck fans, it\u2019s GameDay. Oregon is ready to host coach Prime and his team for a highly anticipated Pac-12 conference opener. <\/p>\n
Our final roundtable of the week talks about which defensive players could step up on Saturday. Unlike the offensive predictions, we have a lot of names on this list and no duplicates. So be sure to check them out.<\/p>\n
Jarrid Denney: Brandon Dorlus<\/strong><\/p>\n If the Ducks beat Colorado as decisively\u00a0as we all expect them to, it will be because\u00a0they found a way to shut down Shedeur Sanders. There is no player on Oregon\u2019s defense more capable of consistently\u00a0disrupting\u00a0Sanders and the Buffs\u2019 passing attack than Brandon Dorlus. Look for the star senior to produce some timely pressures early in the game.<\/p>\n Joel Gunderson: Jahlil Florence<\/strong><\/p>\n This one will be subjective after the game since I don\u2019t see many eye-popping stats for Florence. I don\u2019t think the Buffaloes will challenge him very often, which is a testament to how good he\u2019s looked this season.<\/p>\n Travis Hunter is out, but Colorado still has skill players that can hurt Oregon; with Florence\u2019s emergence, though, it doesn\u2019t matter much. Between him, Khyree Jackson, and\u00a0the emergence of Tysheem Johnson, Oregon\u2019s secondary has improved by leaps and bounds since last season, and this is the first real chance for Florence to show just how\u00a0good he is.<\/p>\n Doug Scott: Tysheem Johnson <\/strong><\/p>\n Colorado loves to get the ball out quick, both out of necessity due to their porous offensive line, and by design to get the ball to their playmakers. Much like last week, Tysheem will find himself in situations where he needs to make an immediate tackle in space for a short game. And much like last week, Johnson will be up to the challenge.<\/p>\n Jhop: Evan Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n I like that we are all over the board with this roundtable. Unlike the offensive side. I\u2019m going with Williams here. He\u2019s the center-fielder in the defense and I think we see Colorado forced to chucking the ball to play catch up. Give me Williams with an improved pass-rush having a chance at some big plays on Saturday.<\/p>\n The post ScoopDuck Roundtable: Defensive Player of the Game<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wake up Duck fans, it\u2019s GameDay. Oregon is ready to host coach Prime and his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}