{"id":413766,"date":"2026-01-17T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413766\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:31:08","slug":"former-ohio-state-cornerback-aaron-scott-jr-transferring-to-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413766\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ohio State Cornerback Aaron Scott Jr. Transferring to Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                   Aaron Scott Jr. will be back in Ohio Stadium next season, but he won\u2019t be wearing scarlet and gray.                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe former Ohio State cornerback will play for one of the Buckeyes\u2019 top Big Ten rivals as he announced his transfer commitment to Oregon on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\tlets work. updascooo! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PKFfPS5WBP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PKFfPS5WBP<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 Aaron Scott JR (@AaronScottJr1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronScottJr1\/status\/2012615361359687718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tScott brings two years of eligibility to Oregon,\u00a0which is set to play a road game at Ohio State during the 2026 regular season (date TBA).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/aaron-scott-jr-46129065\/high-school-274495\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five-star recruit<\/a> out of high school, Scott spent two years with the Buckeyes as a backup cornerback and special teams contributor,\u00a0recording 11 tackles with two pass breakups and one tackle for loss. He\u2019ll now look to earn a bigger role at Oregon, though he\u2019ll face plenty of competition to do so, as\u00a0he joins a secondary that returns 2025 Freshman All-American Brandon Finney Jr. and fellow starting cornerback Ify Obidegwu, as well as former Ohio State commit Na\u2019eem Offord.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tScott, a native of Springfield, Ohio,\u00a0becomes the third defensive back from Ohio on Oregon\u2019s roster, joining Trey McNutt and Dorian Brew, who both signed with the Ducks in the 2025 recruiting class despite being heavily recruited by Ohio State. Neither Brew (who finished his high school career in Texas)\u00a0nor McNutt saw playing time on defense in their freshman year with the Ducks, but both will also be among the defensive backs competing for playing time in Oregon\u2019s 2026 secondary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tScott committed to Oregon after also making visits to Tennessee and Wisconsin.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Scott Jr. will be back in Ohio Stadium next season, but he won\u2019t be wearing scarlet and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-413766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}