{"id":661950,"date":"2026-05-24T08:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661950\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:04:12","slug":"quackkk-oregon-lands-three-star-saf-malakai-taufoou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661950\/","title":{"rendered":"QUACKKK: Oregon Lands Three-Star SAF Malakai Taufoou"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday the Ducks landed a commitment from a defensive prospect out of California. San Mateo (Calif.) safety Malakai Taufoou<\/a> made his commitment to Oregon over Cal and others on the Rivals YouTube channel. <\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2, 200-pounder is the No. 436 ranked prospect nationally in the Rivals Industry Rankings. Taufoou is the No. 38 ranked safety in those same rankings. Washington, Penn State and BYU were his other finalists. <\/p>\n

Taufoou is Oregon\u2019s 13th commitment in the 2027 class for Dan Lanning. He joins four-star Semaj Stanford<\/a> in Oregon\u2019s safety room for this cycle. <\/p>\n

The Ducks were a sleeper in his recruitment for much of the last year. While others pushed for the three-star Oregon made a late push including a visit to start the month of April. And that trip changed things instantly for Taufoou. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great honestly,\u201d said Taufoou, the No. 32 safety in the Rivals ranking. \u201cI went with my dad and my brother and the amount of love they showed us made it feel like home honestly. They treated us like family, showed us around everywhere like it was our first time again. They just showed us lots of love and it felt great to be out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Tosh Lupoi left for Cal, that left a bit of a hole in his recruitment with the Ducks. It was Lupoi who had built the strongest relationship with the Nor Cal product. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt first I didn\u2019t really know what to expect because he was my main recruiter at Oregon,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen he left I was kind of curious\u2013I wouldn\u2019t say I was doubting Oregon or anything. Obviously they\u2019re still gonna be a great program, but I was kind of curious who was gonna take the DC spot. I think they\u2019ve done it perfectly and everything is fitting out well for them. Coach Hampton really knows what he\u2019s doing. So it\u2019s definitely going great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stick to ScoopDuck for more coverage of this latest commitment. Oregon currently has the No. 9 ranked recruiting class in the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday the Ducks landed a commitment from a defensive prospect out of California. San Mateo (Calif.) safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,289693,398,396,397,2313,194158,4504,99],"class_list":["post-661950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-malakai-taufoou-27-junipero-serra","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-or","tag-oregon-ducks-eugene","tag-regwall","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661950","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=661950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}