Justin Herbert

The Oregon Ducks will have a healthy Justin Herbert for their bowl game later this year.

Oregon head coach Mario Cristobal said during his Bowl Game press conference Sunday afternoon the 6-foot-6 junior quarterback is healthy and expected to play in the team's game later this month.

"Justin is healthy and will play in the game."

"The injury in the game, we held him out because he could not continue." Cristobal added, "It’s essentially a really deep bruise."

Herbert suffered a shoulder injury against Oregon State in the first half of the 122nd Civil War and never returned in the game. Oregon won the game 55-15 and improved to 8-4 on the year.

For the season, Herbert threw for 28 touchdowns and 2,985 yards on 221-of-371 passing. Herbert finished the regular season in the Top three in the Pac-12 for passing yards and touchdowns. His quarterback rating of 147.76 finished fourth in the Pac-12, and his yards-per-attempt was also fourth in the Pac-12.

Throughout the entire 2018 football season, Herbert was viewed as one of the top prospects for the upcoming 2019 NFL Draft. Multiple national media outlets have Herbert ranked as the top quarterback in the 2019 class and should he declare for the NFL Draft he'd likely end up being a Top 10 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.

Herbert hasn't made any known decision on playing his senior season or going pro. Earlier this year he refuted a report that he was leaning toward coming back to school by saying he 'hasn't thought three seconds" about the NFL draft.

"I know that coach Cristobal and I, and the team, we made a decision to not talk about it or think about it. I'm not quite sure what was reported but I haven't really spent any time on it at all."

After the Civil War game, Cristobal was asked if Herbert would play in the bowl game should he be healthy, and Cristobal stated he would to his understanding and didn't know why he wouldn't play in the game.