Georgia was the presumed favorite to land a commitment from Calabasas (Calif.) four-star athlete Aaron Butler since the beginning of the new year. <\/p>\n
However, a new favorite has emerged in Butler\u2019s recruitment. <\/p>\n
Following recent industry updates and a prediction from On3 Director of Recruiting Chad Simmons, Oregon is trending to land a commitment from Butler according to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine<\/a> (RPM). <\/p>\n The Ducks now hold a 50.9% percent chance of securing Butlers\u2019 commitment with Georgia sitting not too far off at 36.5%. Butler recently visited Oregon on April 6 and Simmons logged his prediction with a confidence level of 50% Thursday morning.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m told by a source that he had a \u201cvery good\u201d visit to Eugene and that the Ducks will receive an OV,\u201d Simmons said of his decision to log a prediction for Oregon on ScoopDuck.<\/a><\/p>\n Ahead of his visit to Eugene, Butler talked with Simmons and noted that he was excited to meet\u00a0Will Stein<\/a>, Junior Adams<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Dan Lanning<\/a><\/strong> during the visit.<\/p>\n \u201cCoach Lanning was at my school to check on me in January and I know he really wants me,\u201d Butler told On3<\/a>. \u201cOregon is recruiting me hard and I want to really see what they are all about on this next visit.\u201d<\/p>\n Aaron Butler is the No. 86 overall prospect in the 2024 class, according to the On3 Industry Ranking<\/a>, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He ranks as the nation\u2019s No. 4 athlete and the No. 10 recruit in California. <\/p>\n Oregon\u2019s picked up three new commitments over the last two weeks and the Ducks are in the mix for several more of the nation\u2019s top 2024 prospects. <\/p>\n Following the latest industry updates, Oregon is the favorite for four-star cornerback Dakoda Fields<\/a><\/strong> as well as On300 four-star wideout Dillon Gresham<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n The Ducks currently sit with the No. 9 class in the country and the No. 1 class in the Pac-12 with eight commitments up to this point. <\/p>\n This month they picked up a commitment Forney (Texas) four-star safety Aaron Flowers<\/a><\/strong>, Salem (Ore.) West Salem three-star offensive tackle Trent Ferguson<\/a><\/strong> and Saint Louis (Mo.) Hazelwood Central three-star defensive lineman Tionne Gray<\/a><\/strong> flipped his commitment from Missouri to Oregon.<\/p>\n Oregon\u2019s other commitments include commitments include Newport Harbor (Calif.) four-star wide receiver\u00a0Jordan Anderson<\/a><\/strong>, Philadelphia (Pa.) Roman Catholic four-star wide receiver\u00a0Tyseer Denmark<\/a><\/strong>, Vancouver (Wash.) Evergreen four-star offensive tackle\u00a0Fox Crader<\/a><\/strong>, Yuma (Ariz.) Yuma Catholic four-star EDGE\u00a0Jaxson Jones<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Medford (Ore.) North Medford three-star tight end\u00a0A.J. Pugliano<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The post On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine: Oregon trending for athlete Aaron Butler<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Georgia was the presumed favorite to land a commitment from Calabasas (Calif.) four-star athlete Aaron…<\/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-2750","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\/2750","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=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Oregon picking up steam on the recruiting trail<\/h2>\n