Venue: Outdoor practice fields

Format: Full pads

It wasn't a formal scrimmage, and the Ducks were on their practice fields Monday rather than in Autzen Stadium. But for at least a few periods of Monday's practice, the action was no less intense than Saturday's scrimmage.

For the first time this preseason, the Oregon football team on Monday ran a "clutch" drill, using a scoreboard to track the game time and play clock as the offense tried to drive to a "game-winning" field goal. The drill was conducted at "thud" tempo, without tackling to the ground, but beyond that it was not much different from a scrimmage period.

The offense began on the wrong side of midfield, and took a couple plays to get going. But on third-and-seven, Justin Herbert rifled a pass to Juwan Johnson for a 25-yard gain. That got the offense across midfield, and on the very next play Herbert connected with Jacob Breeland in the red zone.

After Herbert took a knee to center the ball, out came the field-goal unit. The kicker was junior Adam Stack , and he drilled a 30-yard kick to win the drill. Stack is coming off a year in which he was hampered start to finish by injury, and an offseason in which the Ducks signed freshman placekicker Camden Lewis . But Stack got the call in the clutch drill Monday, and came through.

With the two on the field, the defense evened the score. Tyler Shough opened with a couple of passes that were catchable but fell incomplete, then had to tuck the ball and run on third down. On fourth down, with the drill on the line, Shough completed a pass to Cyrus Habibi-Likio , but Adrian Jackson and Sampson Niu converged on the back and brought him down just short of the first-down marker.

Prior to the clutch drill, coaches staged a red-zone scenario in which the results were flipped – the No. 1 defense held, but the No. 2 offense scored. Jaylon Redd got the ones off to a good start by using blocks from Johnny Johnson III and Penei Sewell to run just shy of the goal line. But the defense held from there, getting a sack from Isaac Slade-Matautia on third down. For the twos, Shough threw a ball into the end zone on which JJ Tucker won a battle for possession with Mykael Wright .

Other highlights: Herbert and Juwan Johnson were on the same page from the start of practice. They hooked up for three completions during the first 11-on-11 period. That drill also saw backup center Ryan Walk pancake a defender to clear space on a screen pass, and Daewood Davis crash down from his cornerback position to tackle a running back at the line of scrimmage. With the threes on the field, Isaac Townsend recorded a tackle for loss, and Patrick Herbert pushed a defensive end upfield blocking for a run play. …

The next 11-on-11 period featured a nice completion from Justin Herbert to Johnny Johnson III , helped by a great pass block from running back Travis Dye – against his older brother, the blitzing Troy Dye . … The No. 3 defense had a nice sequence in that period, with Max Wysocki snaring a pick-six, Lucas Noland plucking a ball from the air after Cale Millen was hit as he threw, and Kristian Williams recording a sack.