Oregon Ducks Football Recruiting: Marquis Ware visiting UCLA

2014 OLB/TE Marquis Ware is one of the top 100 recruits in the 2014 recruiting class, and he is taking his second visit to a school in Los Angeles this month to watch the big rivalry game between the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins as an unofficial visitor for UCLA. Ware visited USC a couple of weeks ago and saw the Oregon Ducks take down the Trojans. This will be the L.A.-area recruit’s second visit to UCLA in the fall.

Dec 31, 2011; San Francisco CA, USA; The UCLA Bruins mascot performs on the sidelines against the Illinois Fighting Illini during the first quarter at AT

Ware currently holds nine offers from Arizona, Stanford, Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, Memphis, Texas A&M, UCLA, and Colorado. He also has interest from Oregon, USC, Washington, and Wisconsin. The four-star athlete has a high amount of interest in both Oregon and USC, but a win for UCLA could have a chance of making a huge impression on Ware early on in his recruitment and make the Bruins a bigger player.

The Bishop Mora Salesian star is one of the top ten ranked athletes in the 2014 class and is rated by 247Sports as the fifth-best recruit in the state of California. The 6’2″, 215 pound athlete is one of at least 20 recruits expected to be at the UCLA-USC game, making the ramifications of this city rivalry even greater.

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