The Ducks tried hard to get Lyons, particularly after 5-star QB Jared Curtis announced his commitment to the Georgia Bulldogs earlier this spring. Oregon was favored to land Lyons for quite a while, but ultimately, the reports of what appears to be an incredibly lucrative NIL deal for Lyons swayed him to BYU.

BYU has always been able to offer top recruits enough unique and favorable components to cash in occasionally on the recruiting front. But those unique components have never been married with a level of credibility necessary to consistently compete with the so-called ‘Big Boys’ of college football.