Cody Shear will look to add depth on the offensive line.

Oregon redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Cody Shear has placed his name in the NCAA Transfer Portal and will now explore his options to finish his college career at a different school, a source has confirmed to DuckTerritory.com.

Shear was a three-star offensive line prospect from Eugene, Oregon and Sheldon high school. He spent most of his senior season committed to the Arizona Wildcats, but after an Oregon coaching change and Shear's recruitment of Oregon's coaches, the Ducks offered him a scholarship hours before he was signing with the Wildcats on National Signing Day in 2017.

The offer from Oregon was enough to flip him to the Ducks.

“They called right before then and said ‘Don’t sign with Arizona, stay here and play for the Ducks,” Shear said back in 2017. “There was nothing on earth that I had really wanted so badly in my entire life and so for that to become a reality it was pretty surreal.”

Shear was ranked as the state of Oregon's 10th best prospect in the class 2017 and the 47th best offensive guard in the country.

Shear's transfer was first reported by The Oregonian.

Shear's first two seasons at Oregon were filled with change. He first suffered an injury during his redshirt season and it prevented him from being available for the entire season. He then spent portions of the offseason working at offensive tackle, guard, or center.

This past year Shear once again flipped between positions for the Ducks but playing time was hard to find. He never saw the field in 2018 for the Ducks.

Shear becomes the third player since the last week of spring football to leave the program. Linebacker Keith Simms and safety Billy Gibson also have left the program. Gibson was a redshirt sophomore from the 2017 class like Shear while Simms was a redshirt junior from the 2016 recruiting class.

Shear can return to Oregon if he chooses to do that, but the Ducks now do not need to hold a scholarship for him because of the new NCAA Transfer rules. The rules state once a player places his name in the NCAA Transfer Portal, the school can rescind his scholarship for future years. The Ducks are currently two scholarships over the 85 NCAA limit.