The weekend ahead is a full-circle moment for Marcus Mariota . The quarterback for the Washington Commanders will return to his alma mater as a dual feature. Making a guest appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay and being inducted into the University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame.

Mariota, who steered the Oregon Ducks to their first Heisman Trophy in 2014 and to a College Football Playoff appearance, was among the five-member Hall of Fame class of 2025. He’ll join the College GameDay crew this Saturday as a guest picker ahead of Oregon’s game against USC, the kind of intersection of past and present that doesn’t come along very often.

For Washington, Mariota represents stability amid injuries. The Commanders have leaned on him while Jayden Daniels recovers; Mariota has complet

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