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Oregon Legend Haloti Ngata Ranked in Rivals All-Time Five-Stars

On3 imageby: Justin Hopkins08/04/25
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On Monday Rivals went through and ranked the 32 all-time five-stars. It’s an extensive list dating back to the year 2000. It includes some of the heavyweights of college football.

In that span there have been more than 500 five-stars. While the stars don’t matter crowd can debate five-stars vs the field, most will understand the percentage of hits among the elite remains high.

Oregon has landed 13 five-star commits in the rankings era dating back to 2002. And that commit is the one that made Rivals’ top 32 all-time rankings.

Oregon football legend, Haloti Ngata was ranked No. 13 on the list. The elite defensive tackle signed with the Ducks out of Highland (Utah) and went on to have a decorated NFL career. He was drafted in the first round of the 2006 NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens. He spent his first 8 seasons there before spending two years in Detroit ending in Philadelphia in 2018.

Ngata was a five-time pro-bowler in his NFL career.

At Oregon he was the Pac-10 co-defensive player of the year in 2005.

Most consider Ngata on the Mt. Rushmore of college football players at Oregon.

Here are those 32 players that made up the Rivals all-time five-star list.

  1. RB Reggie Bush (USC) 2003
  2. QB Vince Young (Texas) 2002
  3. RB Adrian Peterson (Okla.) 2004
  4. QB Tim Tebow (Florida) 2006
  5. QB Cam Newton (Auburn) 2007
  6. DE Jadaveon Clowney (South Car.) 2011
  7. QB Matthew Stafford (Georgia) 2006
  8. WR Julio Jones (Bama) 2008
  9. DE Myles Garrett (A&M) 2014
  10. QB Bryce Young (Bama) 2020
  11. ATH Travis Hunter (Colo) 2022
  12. DL Tommie Harris (Okla.) 2001
  13. DL Haloti Ngata (Oregon) 2002
  14. LB DJ Williams (Miami) 2000
  15. CB Eric Berry (Tenn.) 2007
  16. CB Patrick Peterson (LSU) 2008
  17. QB Trevor Lawrence (Clemson) 2018
  18. QB Jameis Winston (FSU) 2012
  19. DL Gerald McCoy (Texas) 2006
  20. QB Caleb Williams (USC) 2021
  21. CB Derek Stingley (LSU) 2019
  22. WR AJ Green (Georgia) 2008
  23. WR Jeremiah Smith (Ohio St.) 2024
  24. OT Laremy Tunsil (Ole Miss) 2013
  25. RB Leonard Fournette (LSU) 2014
  26. LB Ernie Sims (FSU) 2003
  27. WR Percy Harvin (Florida) 2006
  28. DL Rashan Gary (Mich.) 2016
  29. WR Sammy Watkins (Clemson) 2011
  30. RB Najee Harris (Bama) 2017
  31. RB CJ Spiller (Clemson) 2006
  32. DE Robert Nkemdiche (Ole Miss) 2013

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