{"id":428353,"date":"2026-01-25T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428353\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:50:08","slug":"oregon-lands-commit-from-sam-ngata-son-of-former-nfl-all-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428353\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon lands commit from Sam Ngata, son of former NFL All-Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eli LedermanJan 24, 2026, 09:04 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World.<\/p>\n

Oregon<\/a> secured commitment from a legacy recruit on Saturday with a pledge from 2027 outside linebacker Sam Ngata, the son of former Ducks All-American and NFL All-Pro Haloti Ngata.<\/p>\n

Ngata, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound defender from Salt Lake City, announced his commitment to Oregon in the midst of a Junior Day Weekend visit with the program. His pledge to the Ducks comes amid heavy interest from BYU, Cal, Michigan and Utah, among others.<\/p>\n

Ngata’s father emerged as a dominant interior defensive lineman in three seasons at Oregon from 2003 to 2005, totaling 151 career tackles, 24.5 tackles for loss and 10 sacks over that span.<\/p>\n

A consensus All-American in 2005, the elder Ngata was selected with the 12th overall pick in the 2006 NFL draft. He went on to become a five-time Pro Bowler and a Super Bowl XLVII champion across 13 NFL seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n

The younger Ngata was credited with 66 total tackles in his junior season this past fall. His commitment comes days after a visit from Oregon defensive coordinator Chris Hampton and defensive line coach Tony Tuioti at Utah’s Olympus High School earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Ngata now joins four-star defensive end Cameron Pritchett (No. 236 in the ESPN Junior 300) as the second member of the Ducks’ 2027 class under coach Dan Lanning. Oregon signed ESPN’s No. 2 recruiting class in the 2026 cycle, headlined by the additions of five-star prospects Kendre Harrison (No. 14 overall), Immanuel Iheanacho (No. 15) and Jett Washington (No. 21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eli LedermanJan 24, 2026, 09:04 PM ET CloseEli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-428353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428353","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=428353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}