Cody Shear is set to join the Sun Devils

Oregon sophomore offensive lineman Cody Shear announced on Sunday that he is transferring to Arizona State.

A 6-foot-3, 285-pound interior lineman who was injured and redshirted in 2017 and did not play in 2018, Shear will have to sit out the 2019 season unless he receives a waiver from the NCAA. He would subsequently have at least two seasons of eligibility.

Shear was a three-star prospect and the No. 47 offensive guard in the national 2017 class out of Sheldon High in Eugene, Oregon. Arizona, Oregon State and Washington State were Shear's other reported Pac-12 offers out of high school. He spent most of his senior season committed to the Wildcats before switching his pledge to the hometown Ducks on Feb. 1, 2017, the same day he was offered a scholarship.

“They called right before then and said, ‘Don’t sign with Arizona, stay here and play for the Ducks,” Shear said 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 entered the transfer portal last month after working with Oregon's third-team offensive line in spring practices. It had become clear at that point that he likely wasn't going to be a factor in the team's two-deep in the near future.

The 2018 season proved successful for the Sun Devils with in-conference graduate transfers Casey Tucker and Roy Hemsley joining the program from Stanford and USC, respectively. Tucker was a regular starter last season and Hemsley was a part-time starter who is competing for a starting spot as a senior in 2019 at right tackle and right guard.

ASU's second-year coaching staff under Herm Edwards is preparing for a potential major challenge at the offensive line position group in 2020. The Sun Devils will lose six seniors, including all of their projected starters, after the 2019 season. They have no returning scholarship juniors or sophomores this year and only three linemen who were on the team in 2018 will have remaining eligibility in 2020.

The Sun Devils signed four high school offensive linemen in the 2019 class, all of whom will be freshmen this season. They also have a grayshirt offensive tackle prospect out of Colorado, Alijah Bates, who is expected to enroll in January of 2020.

Shear will likely compete for a starting offensive guard spot in 2020 for the Sun Devils. He also practiced at center and tackle for the Ducks in 2018.