Oregon gets 3rd five-star recruit in OT Iheanacho

Five-star violative tackle Immanuel Iheanacho announced his committedness to Oregon connected "The Pat McAfee Show" connected Thursday, sealing a large recruiting triumph for manager Dan Lanning and the Ducks.

A 6-foot-7, 350-pound lineman from North Bethesda, Maryland, Iheanacho is ESPN's No. 2 violative tackle successful the 2026 rhythm and the No. 13 wide enlistee successful the ESPN 300. He chose Oregon implicit finalists Auburn, LSU and Penn State pursuing authoritative visits with each programme this spring.

Ihenacho joins longtime Ducks choky extremity pledge Kendre' Harrison (No. 12 overall) and No. 1 information Jett Washington (No. 21) arsenic Oregon's 3rd five-star perpetrate successful 2026.

Iheanacho precocious told ESPN that identifying a way to aboriginal playing clip and opportunities for improvement would beryllium driving factors successful his determination arsenic helium reached the precocious stages of his recruitment. He besides spoke connected his relationships with Lanning and Ducks violative enactment manager A'lique Terry and their caller way grounds for producing top-end violative enactment talent, astir precocious with 2025 first-round NFL draught enactment Josh Conerly Jr.

"I was talking to Coach Lanning erstwhile I was going done my prom stuff. He's a younger manager that I tin truly speech astir beingness with," Iheanacho said. "Coach Terry is astir apt 1 of the champion successful the country, and helium conscionable produced a first-round draught pick. I consciousness similar my astir genuine connections are astatine Oregon."

Iheanacho's committedness continues a affirmative momentum displacement for the Ducks' 2026 violative enactment people aft Oregon mislaid violative tackle pledge Kodi Greene (No. 37 overall) and missed retired connected No. 1 violative tackle and Miami perpetrate Jackson Cantwell (No. 3) successful the spring.

Iheanacho lands with the Ducks 1 time aft the programme completed its flip of four-star violative lineman Tommy Tofi, ESPN's No. 1 violative defender and a erstwhile Cal commit. Oregon besides added a pledge from three-star violative defender Koloi Keli past month.

With Iheanacho successful the fold, the Ducks present clasp 8 apical 300 pledges successful the 2026 class, which ranks 23rd successful ESPN's latest rankings for the cycle.

A towering beingness connected the violative line, Iheanacho projects arsenic an elite tally blocker susceptible of playing crossed the violative enactment successful college. He has started astatine near and close tackle implicit his past 2 varsity seasons, and Iheanacho did not let a sack arsenic a inferior astatine Baltimore's Georgetown Prep successful 2024. His positional versatility, paired with the imaginable for Oregon to suffer arsenic galore arsenic 4 starters aft the 2025 season, could pave the mode for Ihenacho to gain aboriginal snaps erstwhile helium joins the Ducks successful 2026.

Iheanacho's determination comes arsenic the last dominoes atop the 2026 violative tackle people get acceptable to autumn this week. Five-star enlistee Felix Ojo (No. 20 overall) and four-star lineman John Turntine III (No. 43) -- ESPN's fourth- and sixth-ranked violative tackles, respectively -- are each expected to denote their commitments Friday. Those moves volition permission lone four-star imaginable Darius Gray (No. 73) arsenic the past uncommitted among ESPN's apical 10 violative tackles successful the cycle.