QuickTake:

Oregon found its quarterback of the future in Dylan Raiola. When he takes over depends on what Dante Moore does next.

The Oregon Ducks have their quarterback of the future.

Whether he also ends up being their quarterback of the present is still to be determined.

Oregon landed one of the biggest names out of the transfer portal on Monday when former Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola announced his signing with the Ducks.

Raiola started 22 games for the Cornhuskers over two seasons, tallying 4,819 passing yards, 31 touchdowns and 17 interceptions. He threw for 2,000 yards with 18 touchdowns and six interceptions in 2025 before his sophomore season ended with a broken fibula suffered against USC on Nov. 1.

Raiola comes to Oregon with two seasons of eligibility remaining.

If current Oregon quarterback Dante Moore forgoes his final year of eligibility and declares for the NFL Draft, Raiola would naturally slide in as the team’s presumed starter — especially following the transfer portal departures of UO backups Austin Novosad and Luke Moga.

But if Moore decides to return to Oregon, Raiola still has a redshirt season available and could potentially take the same route Moore did in 2024, when the former UCLA quarterback transferred to Oregon and sat a season behind Dillon Gabriel on the depth chart.

Raiola sitting for a year would seem out of turn for a proven college starter — and a former No. 2 recruit in the country — if Moore, a former No. 3 recruit, hadn’t just successfully blazed the same path.

Moore passed for 3,565 yards, 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 15 starts with the Ducks in 2025 and said after the Orange Bowl that he had yet to make a decision about his future.

Whether he ends up being the guy in 2026 or 2027, Raiola is a fascinating story.

He played high school football in Texas, Arizona and Georgia. He was committed to Ohio State — then Georgia — before ultimately signing with Nebraska in December of 2023.

His favorite player is Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes and it shows — down to Railoa wearing the same No. 15, doing the same pre-game routines and patterning his throwing style after the NFL great.

Raiola was also high school teammates with Oregon defensive tackle A’Mauri Washington at Chandler High School in Arizona.

“Obviously the expectations are to win a national championship at a school like that, and rightfully so,” Chandler coach Rick Garretson told me during Raiola’s recruitment in 2022. “It should be exciting times in Eugene. If they can get guys like A’Mauri Washington and Dylan Raiola, it’ll make it even more exciting.”

Washington, a potential first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, announced his decision to return for his senior season at Oregon on Sunday evening.

Tyson Alger covered the Ducks for The Oregonian and The Athletic before branching out on his own to create and run The I-5 Corridor. He brings more than a decade of experience on the University of Oregon sports beat. He has covered everything from Marcus Mariota’s Heisman Trophy-winning season to the Ducks’ first year in the Big 10.