EUGENE, Ore. — Tony Brooks-James has a beard. A sign, even unintentional, of time gone by.



He’s the last one left now. For the last three seasons, it’s always been about Royce Freeman, then Kani Benoit and himself. A three-headed monster in Oregon’s backfield, people liked to call it, the last vestige of longtime Oregon RB coach Gary Campbell’s legacy of high-powered runners.



But as Brooks-James sat at media day, fiddling around with an airhorn that he said he found downstairs beneath this second-floor box-level at Autzen Stadium, he took a look around and it was clear that times are different here at Oregon, under his third head coach in as many seasons.



“I was texting Royce last week actually, talking trash to him as usual. I haven’t talked to Kani in a minute. I’ve been meaning to text him,” said Brooks-James. “It’s weird seeing people I came here with gone now. I’m really one of...