Jaydan Hardy, 4-Star Texas Safety, Places Oregon in Top Five Schools

The Ducks have one safety commit in the 2024 class and have continued working in Texas.

On Thursday, 2024 Lewisville (Tex.) safety Jaydan Hardy placed the Oregon Ducks in his top five schools.

Top 5📈 pic.twitter.com/q2wMhLeRwU

— Jaydan Hardy (@jaydan_hardy) April 21, 2023

The other schools to make the cut include Oklahoma, Texas A&M, SMU and Tennessee. 

Hardy is rated a four-star (0.9316) recruit on the 247Sports Composite. He's ranked the No. 162 player nationally, the No. 14 safety and the No. 29 recruit in Texas.

He's listed at 5'10", 165 pounds and reeled in 24 reported scholarship offers before whittling his list down to five. Hardy has visited Oregon before, taking a trip out to Eugene in July 2022.

Recently though, he's been a frequent visitor at Oklahoma, taking trips in both January and March.

Oregon has one safety committed in the 2024 recruiting class already in four-star Aaron Flowers, who announced his pledge earlier this month. Like Hardy, he's a Texas native, playing his high school football at Forney.

If the visits tell us anything, the Sooners look to be the trending team as it stands, but we know how quickly just one trip to Eugene can change things in a recruitment.

The Ducks signed two high school safeties in the 2023 recruiting class in Tyler Turner and Kodi DeCambra. They also added Tysheem Johnson, a do-it-all defensive back from Ole Miss as well as Evan Williams from Fresno State.

Safety is a veteran-laden group for Oregon this upcoming year, so expect them to prioritize the position in 2024. Chris Hampton is also pursuing five-star safety KJ Bolden out of Georgia, who's expected in Eugene for the spring game, as well as Jaylen McClain from New Jersey.

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