North Carolina defensive lineman Trajen Odom is a big name to know among Oregon's 2025 recruiting targets.
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00:00 Another big visitor that not enough people are talking about.
00:04 And I think a big time recruit that you got to know if you are a fan of the Oregon Ducks.
00:11 And if you follow Oregon football recruiting, let's talk about Trajan Odom.
00:16 Trajan Odom is a big time defensive line target for the Ducks here in the 2025 class out of
00:24 the state of North Carolina.
00:26 And I'm going to talk to you about why that's important in this video.
00:31 Trajan Odom recently landed an offer from the Ducks.
00:33 He got his first offer from he got an offer from the Ducks, I should say, just last month
00:39 in January.
00:40 And he got two visits from the Oregon coaching staff.
00:44 He had Dan Lanyon out there, you had defensive coordinator Tosh Lapoi out there, Tony Tuyoti,
00:49 the defensive line coach, co defensive coordinator and safeties coach, Chris Hampton, our defensive
00:56 backs coach, excuse me, no longer the safeties coach exclusively.
01:00 But Chris Hampton was out there as well.
01:03 In North Carolina, he goes to Weddington High School in Matthews, North Carolina.
01:08 He was recently at Cary, North Carolina, Panther Creek High School.
01:13 But this is a guy that Oregon is really prioritizing here in the 2025 class, not necessarily the
01:19 highest rated recruit, but he hasn't even played his senior season yet.
01:23 So I wouldn't be surprised if this stock rises.
01:26 According to the 247 Sports Composite, he is the number 381 player nationally, the number
01:31 37 defensive lineman and the number nine recruit in the state of North Carolina.
01:37 He is rated a three star 0.8880.
01:41 But man, this guy plays a big brand of football 32 reported scholarship offers listed at six
01:47 foot five 265 pounds.
01:51 Going to get into my latest quotes and analysis from his visit and analyze things on the recruiting
01:57 trail with Odom.
01:59 But the main reason that he is going to be such a big priority for the Ducks here in
02:04 the 2025 cycle, just look at what the Ducks did the past two cycles along the D line.
02:09 2023, you bring in guys like Matteo, young Lele, Blake purchase, Terrence Green, Jaden
02:16 Moore, Ashton Porter.
02:17 There are just so many big time guys and Tatum to Yodi as well in that 23 class.
02:23 And then look at 2024.
02:25 Things got even better for the Ducks.
02:26 Jericho Johnson, Aiden Breland, a pair of all Americans there.
02:30 The Deviant Sims make it a trio of all Americans.
02:34 Elijah rushing.
02:35 We know that Dan Lanning and the Ducks like to prioritize the defensive line and you need
02:40 big bodies at the line of scrimmage if you're going to win big time football games.
02:46 And the big change here, one of the big changes I should say in the 2025 recruiting class
02:51 is that the defensive line talent is not to the same caliber that it was out West in 2024.
02:58 So the 2025 year for D line is kind of a down year on the West Coast.
03:03 So you can't find you're not finding these huge, huge bodies like your Aiden Breland's
03:08 and Jericho Johnson's out West in the 25 class.