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Breeze finished last season tied for fourth on the team in tackles (62) while also nabbing two interceptions, but it was back-to-back heroic performances in the Pac-12 Championship and the Rose Bowl (in which he won Defensive MVP) that put a size-72 font exclamation mark on what had otherwise been a solid junior campaign. Moving forward, that responsibility now seemingly falls almost exclusively to Nick Pickett, who resides as the lone senior and only player with more than one year of experience in the Ducks’ defensive backfield.Īside from experience, the Ducks must also replace a player who proved stunningly capable of delivering momentum-changing plays in high stakes games. Those sentiments grew even stronger once Lenoir, Graham, and Holland made their decisions to opt-out, as Breeze was set to serve as one of the unit’s wizened elder statesmen with an opportunity to really elevate his draft stock by emerging as the leader of that group. Pre-COVID, Breeze was primed to assume a larger role in the secondary after his brilliant finish to the 2019 season.

In many ways, that’s what make Breeze’s decision so unexpected. Additionally, and perhaps relatedly, Breeze isn’t necessarily viewed as a slam dunk pick to be drafted next April, as most way-too-early draft projections have him being selected no earlier than Day 3 of the draft, if not undrafted altogether. Lenoir and Graham had flirted with the idea of the NFL earlier this year, while Holland was viewed as an ascending NFL-caliber talent early in his Oregon career, but Breeze never appeared to toy with those ideas – at least not publicly. Unlike the decisions from Lenoir, Graham, and Holland, however, Breeze wasn’t widely accepted as an opt-out candidate. Thank you for making my dream a reality 🙏 /Zjzj3aqw0v - Brady Breeze October 4, 2020 Sunday afternoon’s announcement from senior safety Brady Breeze that he would be opting out of the 2020 season to prepare for the 2021 NFL Draft made him the fourth Duck defensive back (and fifth Oregon player overall) to do so, following in the footsteps of Deommodore Lenoir, Thomas Graham, and Jevon Holland who made the decision to opt-out in September.

What was once a position group of immense strength for Oregon heading into the 2020 season has suddenly become one of the team’s biggest question marks with a month to go before the season opener November 7 vs.