Oregon Misses Out On Five-Star Recruit Jett Harrison to Rival Big Ten Program
Oregon Misses Out On Five-Star Recruit Jett Harrison to Rival Big Ten Program
The Oregon Ducks missed out on the top receiver recruit from the 2028 cycle, Jett Harrison, but are expected to continue pushing for a flip.Lily Crane|
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Oregon DucksOhio State BuckeyesThe Oregon Ducks added two blue-chip commits to their 2027 recruiting class on July 1. While it was one of the biggest days of coach Dan Lanning’s 2027 cycle, it also marked a significant loss for his 2028 recruiting class.
The No. 1 receiver in 2028, five-star Jett Harrison, announced his commitment to the Ohio State Buckeyes. The Ducks will likely continue to push for a recruiting flip as Harrison enters his junior year of high school, but they now face an uphill battle.
Five-Star Receiver Jett Harrison’s Recruitment
Harrison is the son of former Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Marvin Harrison, who was a first-round NFL pick. Not only are the football genes strong in the Harrison bloodline, but the connection to the Buckeyes’ program is as well. Harrison is additionally the younger brother of former Ohio State receiver and current Arizona Cardinals star Marvin Harrison Jr.
The Buckeyes were the favorites for the receiver, who’s considered the No. 1 overall recruit by Rivals. Harrison also considered Oregon and the Miami Hurricanes, but chose to strengthen the legacy of the Harrison name at Ohio State.
Harrison plays for St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he scored 10 touchdowns in just his freshman season in 2024, according to 247Sports.
Oregon Ducks Rising With Receiver Recruiting
The Ducks may have missed out on Harrison, but their receiver recruiting has reached another level under Lanning’s leadership. Oregon now has five straight cycles with a five-star receiver recruit.
The 2026 season alone will feature former five-star recruits Gatlin Bair, Jalen Lott and Dakorien Moore. Moore was the No. 1 receiver in his recruiting class in 2025, showing that Lanning and receivers coach Ross Douglas are changing the program’s trajectory at the position by recruiting and retaining top talent.
In the 2027 cycle, Oregon has earned a commitment from five-star Dakota Guerrant. The Ducks are also predicted by Rivals to land Xavier Sabb, another five-star receiver who is set to announce his commitment on Friday, July 3.
Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Oregon Ducks Recruiting Battles
The Ducks and Buckeyes rivalry continues to heat up both on and off the field. The two Big Ten sides notoriously faced off in a recruiting battle in the 2026 cycle with the recruitment of five-star receiver Chris Henry Jr.
Henry was long committed to the Buckeyes, but when former offensive coordinator and receivers coach Brian Hartline left to become the head coach at USF, Henry rethought his decision during the early signing period.
Oregon briefly earned a prediction from Rivals to land Henry, but the No. 1 receiver in 2026 ended up sticking with the Buckeyes. Even though Henry didn’t switch to Oregon, the chance it had to secure a commitment shows Lanning’s relentlessness in recruiting players up until the moment the pen hits the paper.
While Ohio State continues to earn the reputation as “Wide Receiver U,” the Ducks look to develop their recent receiver talent and prove they can win some of the receiver recruiting battles with the Buckeyes.
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LILY CRANELily Crane a reporter for Oregon Ducks on SI. Before attending the University of Oregon Journalism School of Communications, she grew up in Grants Pass, Oregon. She previously spent three years covering Ducks sports for the University of Oregon's student newspaper, The Daily Emerald. Lily's also a play-by-play broadcaster for Big Ten Plus and the student radio station, KWVA 88.1 FM Eugene. She became the first woman in KWVA Sports history to be the primary voice of a team when she called Oregon soccer in 2024. Her voice has been heard over the airwaves calling various sports for Oregon, Bushnell University and Thurston High School athletics.
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Meet Melat Kiros, the Ethiopian-born anti-Israel socialist crusader who is DSA’s rising star after stunning upset in Colorado
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Meet Melat Kiros, the Ethiopian-born anti-Israel socialist crusader who is DSA’s rising star after stunning upset in Colorado
By Ryan King Published July 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleWASHINGTON — Democratic socialism is spreading West.
Political newcomer Melat Kiros, 29, who took down 15-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Col.) in a stunning primary upset Tuesday, is riding a wave of anti-Israel and anti-ICE sentiment sweeping her party.
The Ethiopian-born PhD student has pushed to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), suggested that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks were “inevitable,” downplayed suggestions that a firebombing of a Jewish rally was an act of antisemitism, and more.
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Once in the House of Representatives, which is considered likely because she’s in a safe blue district, Kiros has vowed to push Democrats as far left as possible and to oppose Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) becoming speaker.
Political awakening
Kiros refined many of her far-left views in law school at Notre Dame in the early 2020s, a period she describes as her political awakening, as the country was roiled by the COVID-19 pandemic and peak wokeness.
“I literally watched the Federalist Society handpicking some of my classmates onto the judge track in their decades-long bid to pack the courts,” she complained, according to Vox. “…I just lost faith in the system; I think a lot of young people did.”
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After law school in 2022, she joined the law firm Sidley Austin in New York, where she worked as a regulatory and enforcement associate. The following year, she was fired for writing a viral open letter lambasting law firms for pushing to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses.
“By chilling future lawyers’ employment prospects for criticism of the Israeli government’s actions and its legitimacy, you are complicit in Israel’s weaponization of anti-Semitism against legitimate concerns for the right of self-determination and the livelihood of the Palestinian people,” she wrote in the missive.
Sidley Austin demanded she take the letter down, but Kiros claims she refused and was fired as a result.
“I didn’t flinch because I stood by every word and I always will,” she boasted during her victory speech Tuesday.
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That move drew headlines and boosted her name recognition in lefty circles.
After losing her law gig, Kiros moved back to Colorado, where her family had immigrated while she was just 11-months-old. Her father had been picked in America’s Diversity Visa Lottery, per her campaign website.
Back home, she enrolled in a PhD program in public policy and worked as a barista.
Then, in the middle of last year, she decided to launch a seemingly long-shot primary challenge against DeGette, who is widely considered to be a very progressive lawmaker and has served in Congress longer than Kiros has been alive.
DeGette had the backing of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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But Kiros’ candidacy caught fire with the DSA and other lefty groups that were hunting for candidates to take on incumbent Democrats and push the party further leftwards.
One of the major differences between the two was Kiros’ tougher stance against Israel. DeGette faced grassroots pushback for supporting defensive aid to Israel.
Kiros, however, made tough talk against the Jewish state a feature of her campaign.
For example, she told notorious lefty streamer Hasan Piker that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack was an “inevitable consequence of apartheid,” though she later clarified she wasn’t trying to say it was justified.
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Piker is a very controversial streamer, having declared that “America deserved 9/11″ and praised the “brave mujahideen” who injured Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).
In a similar vein, she told 9News journalist Kyle Clark that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were an “inevitable consequence” of US foreign policy.
Kiros has stirred local controversy for downplaying the role of antisemitism in the June 1, 2025, firebombing attack at a weekly Jewish gathering aimed at bringing attention to the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. One person was killed and a dozen were injured in that attack.
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The attacker, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, screamed “Free Palestine” before later stating that he “wanted to kill all Zionist people,” according to the FBI.
Kiros repeatedly declined to call it antisemitism and told NOTUS that it wasn’t “entirely obvious that it was just motivated by antisemitism.”
Many of her positions are similar to those of other DSA members, including support for Medicare for All, a modified Green New Deal, and mass amnesty. Kiros also wants a 10% slash in Pentagon spending.
“People are seeing that capitalism is responsible for a lot of the degradation that we’re seeing in our economy, that we’re seeing in our democracy, that we’re certainly seeing in our climate as well,” she claimed in a recent interview.
“They’re demanding a new way to organize our economy.”
Should she win in November, she will be the first Gen. Z woman to serve in Congress and the second Zoomer overall, after Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.)
She is riding a socialist revolt within the Democratic Party, as far-left candidates have won primaries across New York, Maine, Illinois, and elsewhere heading into the midterms.
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