Game log · Week-by-week
2026 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 34-27vs Boise State | 8 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 31-39@ Oklahoma State | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 13 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
#21
Aaron Flowers
Aaron Flowers did the hard part already: he walked into fall camp as a redshirt freshman, wrestled a starting safety job away from older bodies, and never let go of it. The reward for a season of holding the line? An offseason where Oregon's secondary is being talked about as maybe the best in college football — and a room so deep that even an incumbent starter has to keep proving he belongs.
6′0″ · 208 lb · Forney, TX · Forney HS
CFB Index 54 · #235 of 544 safetiesLow confidenceReturning to Oregon for 2026
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
4★
S recruit
No. 60 nationally · Signed with Oregon
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Aaron Flowers did the hard part already: he walked into fall camp as a redshirt freshman, wrestled a starting safety job away from older bodies, and never let go of it. The reward for a season of holding the line? An offseason where Oregon's secondary is being talked about as maybe the best in college football — and a room so deep that even an incumbent starter has to keep proving he belongs.
- Signed as a 4-star recruit to Oregon in 2024.
Aaron Flowers did the hard part already: he walked into fall camp as a redshirt freshman, wrestled a starting safety job away from older bodies, and never let go of it. The reward for a season of holding the line? An offseason where Oregon's secondary is being talked about as maybe the best in college football — and a room so deep that even an incumbent starter has to keep proving he belongs.
The discourse around Oregon's defense this offseason isn't really about Flowers — it's about the room he plays in. The Ducks reeled in Minnesota safety Koi Perich, an 82-tackle transfer who 247Sports calls 'all but a lock' at one spot, and with Brandon Finney Jr. rising at corner the beat writers have started using phrases like 'one of the best secondaries in the country.' Flowers is the quiet constant inside all of it: he logged 399 pass snaps in 2025, started every week, and put up 37 solo tackles, three pass breakups and his first career interception, picked off against Rutgers.
The wrinkle is the math. 247Sports' post-spring read has Flowers as the favorite at boundary safety — but the names listed behind and beside him are loud: five-star-pedigree Peyton Woodyard, Jett Washington, and Trey McNutt, the 'supremely talented' wildcard whose 2025 was wiped out by a broken leg and who, healthy, is back in the mix. He carried On3 preseason True Freshman All-American buzz a year ago; the production has been steady rather than spectacular, which is exactly why the boards file him under 'expected to keep the spot' rather than 'lock.'
So the 2026 question writes itself. In a secondary everyone expects to be elite, does Flowers make the leap from dependable incumbent into a name — the kind of versatile, ball-hawking safety the Thorpe watch starts to notice — or does the deepest room on the roster quietly move on without him?
How he plays
A 6-foot, 200-pound safety built for Oregon's positionless secondary — recruited as a top-60 national prospect who projects across safety, nickel, and emergency corner. He plays like a coverage-first defender rather than a downhill thumper: 399 pass snaps in 2025, three pass breakups and a pick suggest a back-end role reading routes more than filling alleys, and his 37 solo tackles point to clean, in-space finishing rather than box volume. The scouting read is range and versatility over splash — a chess-piece safety the staff can move around, still hunting the takeaway production that turns a solid starter into a star.
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The story
The discourse around Oregon's defense this offseason isn't really about Flowers — it's about the room he plays in. The Ducks reeled in Minnesota safety Koi Perich, an 82-tackle transfer who 247Sports calls 'all but a lock' at one spot, and with Brandon Finney Jr. rising at corner the beat writers have started using phrases like 'one of the best secondaries in the country.' Flowers is the quiet constant inside all of it: he logged 399 pass snaps in 2025, started every week, and put up 37 solo tackles, three pass breakups and his first career interception, picked off against Rutgers.
The wrinkle is the math. 247Sports' post-spring read has Flowers as the favorite at boundary safety — but the names listed behind and beside him are loud: five-star-pedigree Peyton Woodyard, Jett Washington, and Trey McNutt, the 'supremely talented' wildcard whose 2025 was wiped out by a broken leg and who, healthy, is back in the mix. He carried On3 preseason True Freshman All-American buzz a year ago; the production has been steady rather than spectacular, which is exactly why the boards file him under 'expected to keep the spot' rather than 'lock.'
So the 2026 question writes itself. In a secondary everyone expects to be elite, does Flowers make the leap from dependable incumbent into a name — the kind of versatile, ball-hawking safety the Thorpe watch starts to notice — or does the deepest room on the roster quietly move on without him?
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His career
A 6-foot, 200-pound safety built for Oregon's positionless secondary — recruited as a top-60 national prospect who projects across safety, nickel, and emergency corner. He plays like a coverage-first defender rather than a downhill thumper: 399 pass snaps in 2025, three pass breakups and a pick suggest a back-end role reading routes more than filling alleys, and his 37 solo tackles point to clean, in-space finishing rather than box volume. The scouting read is range and versatility over splash — a chess-piece safety the staff can move around, still hunting the takeaway production that turns a solid starter into a star.
Written by our staff.
2024
- Signed with Oregon4-star out of Forney
Career arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Oregon
NFL
NFL Draft
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Coaching lineage · 2024–2026
1 coach2024–2026
Oregon
Played his entire career under Dan Lanning.
2026 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Dan Lanning — 27-4 over that span.
2024Oregon13-1HC: Dan Lanning · Balanced
2025Oregon13-2HC: Dan Lanning · Run-leaning
2026Oregon1-1HC: Dan Lanning · Balanced, slow tempo
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Medium confidence
Concern: solo tackles (16th percentile).
Box-score production (6)
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits & context
Splits
Per-game splits
Through 2 games: 6.5 TKL/g, 0.0 TFL/g, 0.0 SACK/g, 0.5 PD/g — splits start at 3 games.
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Lanning
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Awards
Player standing · 2025
Starter
Tackle volume for the position at a full-time starter's level.
Recognition
Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Production · CFB Index Score
54 · #235 of 544 safeties
Former four-star. Now #235 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Big Ten
Based on 2025: #41 of 77 Big Ten DBs
How the All-Big Ten estimate is computed
15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.
Career stats
Signature game
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2026
W 34–27
vs Boise State
8 TOT · 2 SOLO
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.
With D. Moore — 378 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · -5 rush yds (2 car) · B. Ettridge — 48 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 52 LONG
Game log
How he plays
Play style
A 6-foot, 200-pound safety built for Oregon's positionless secondary — recruited as a top-60 national prospect who projects across safety, nickel, and emergency corner. He plays like a coverage-first defender rather than a downhill thumper: 399 pass snaps in 2025, three pass breakups and a pick suggest a back-end role reading routes more than filling alleys, and his 37 solo tackles point to clean, in-space finishing rather than box volume. The scouting read is range and versatility over splash — a chess-piece safety the staff can move around, still hunting the takeaway production that turns a solid starter into a star.
Our classifier reads him the same way: plays like an extra linebacker near the line.
2026 Outlook
Oregon
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive back · Oregon
Returning around him
- 7 Oregon players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -18 net (13 in / 31 out)
2026 Award watch
- Jim Thorpe
Oregon · Last season: 13-2 (AP #5) · Talent rank #3 · 2026 recruiting class #3
DNA match
Player DNA
Box Safety
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
S
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cedrick Cunningham’s 2021 season.
77%match
Matches Cedrick on
Interceptions
Class year
PD rate
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Davaughn Patterson's sophomore season at Wake Forest (2024).
Matches Davaughn on
PD rate
Weight
Tackle volume
Differs from Davaughn on
Class year (lower)
Background
As A Redshirt Freshman (2025) » All-Big Ten honorable mention (media) Started all 15 games while helping the Ducks reach the College Football Playoff Semifinal … Third on the team with 70 total tackles, including 37 solo … Added 1.0 tackles for loss, an interception, two forced fumbles and three...
The secondary · Oregon
- #3Koi Perich82 tackles · 2025
- #21Aaron Flowers69 tackles · 2025
- #4Brandon Finney Jr.42 tackles · 2025
- #7Ify Obidegwu25 tackles · 2025
- #12Peyton Woodyard22 tackles · 2025
20 more on the roster · Oregon team page
Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology