Oregon Ducks

DuckNation's Brandon P. Oliver took questions on Twitter on Wednesday from the @ESPNDuckNation handle. Here's the complete recap.

 

Ed Werder discusses the teams interested in signing Chip Kelly and what it would take to convince him to leave Oregon.

With talk of Chip Kelly possibly going to the NFL after this season, Ivan Maisel takes a look at how his high-octane offense would work in the pros.

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It was the type of day countless high school football stars all across the country experience every week. After leaving his girlfriend's house, Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School offensive lineman J.D. Hinnant headed to a team dinner the night before a big Friday game.

It ended up being the type of night every parent fears.

When Laurie Hinnant got the call on the afternoon of Nov. 2, she heard some of the most dreadful words a mother can hear.

"All I heard was that J.D. had been in an accident," she said. "That it was bad and we needed to get over there as soon as possible. It was unbelievable," she said. "I can't imagine a feeling worse than what I felt when I got the call."

Her mind immediately went to the worst place imaginable.

"I thought he was gone," she said. "It was something you're never prepared to hear about your child."

She gathered her husband and daughters and headed straight for the scene. They couldn't get there fast enough.

"When I saw the car, I thought there was no way he could have survived," she said. "He was still in the passenger's seat when we got there. He was unconscious and we didn't know what to think. They had to remove him from the car, and I just thought that this was how it was going to end."

Hinnant's mother rode to the hospital in the ambulance with him, on what she said was the longest ride of her life.

"It took forever," she said. "To look at your son, who is always so full of life and think that you might be watching that life be taken away from him...That is very hard to take."

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Chip Kelly sits down with Samantha Steele to talk about his offseason trip to Africa.

Five-year old Oregon fan Braden Pape and Lee Corso make their predictions for the Stanford-Oregon matchup.

Players and coaches from Oregon and Stanford discuss the battle that will take place between the Oregon offense and the Stanford defense in tonight's matchup.

Brad Edwards writes that in just four years, Chip Kelly has built Oregon into a perennial power.

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ESPN's Brock Huard ranks college football's top five young quarterbacks (true sophomores or younger), and Marcus Mariota checks in at No. 2.

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Oregon's high-octane offense gets most of the attention, but Brad Edwards writes that the defense deserves a ton of credit, too.

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On The Mark with Mark Schlabach takes a look at this week's two marquee games -- USC-Oregon and LSU-Alabama. If you could only attend one game, which should it be? Well, that all depends on what you're looking for.

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