Oregon might have one of the best draft classes in school history on the horizon. With the 2019 NFL Draft now over, the experts are turning their attention to the 2020 NFL Draft and there's a large number of Oregon players with their names high on the draft board.

CBS Sports' Chris Trapasso released his 2020 NFL Draft: preseason Top 100 Big Board on Tuesday and it includes eight Ducks. Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert is listed as the No. 5 overall prospect on the Big Board behind No. 1 overall, Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa.

Five other Ducks listed on the big board play a big part in why Oregon has high expectations for this season. Calvin Throckmorton (No. 12), Troy Dye (No. 43), Shane Lemieux (No. 59), senior tight end Jacob Breeland (No. 77) and center Jake Hanson (No. 91) all had their names mentioned along with Herbert as players who could have gone in the 2019 NFL Draft had they elected to leave early.

Graduate transfer Juwan Johnson is listed at No. 66 on the CBS Sports Big Board. Arriving for the second half of Oregon's spring camp, Johnson has already worked his way into the first team offense in just a handful of practices.

Junior cornerback Thomas Graham (No. 75) is listed as the only underclassmen from Oregon on the big board.

The Ducks lead the Pac-12 with eight players listed on the big board. Stanford has four players listed, Colorado and Washington each have three, while Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Utah, UCLA each have one on the big board. Washington State, USC and Oregon State have no players listed in the top 100.

As the 2019 NFL Draft came to a close, ESPN's mock draft guru Mel Kiper released his first big board for the 2020 draft and an Oregon Duck is a No. 3. Oregon quarterback is the No. 3 player on Mel Kiper's big board after Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Alabama wide receiver Jerry Jeudy.

Herbert decided to return for his senior year, announcing the decision in late December before the Ducks played in the RedBox Bowl. Herbert was named by many throughout the season as the top prospect in the 2019 NFL Draft and brought scouts from almost every NFL team to Oregon's practices and games throughout the season.

Mel Kiper has six SEC players in his top 10 looking ahead to the 2020 NFL Draft pic.twitter.com/WmTvPbmFHf — SEC Mike (@MichaelWBratton) April 27, 2019

During the closing moments of ESPN College Gameday's NFL Draft broadcast, former Heisman trophy winner and current Gameday analyst Desmond Howard has Justin Herbert going as the top prospect in next year's draft. The gameday pannel of Desmond Howard, David Pollack, and Jim Mora were asked to name their first pick of the 2020 NFL Draft and Howard had high praise for the Oregon quarterback.

"The quarterback from Oregon," said Howard. "Justin Herbert is 6-foot-6, athletic and can make all the throws. He would have been the top pick in this draft."

Howard isn't the only one with Herbert going as the top pick next year.

Fox Sports' Joel Klatt published his 2020 big board on Friday morning with Justin Herbert's name as the No. 1 prospect for the 2020 draft. Herbert is one of the three quarterbacks to make Klatt's top 15 with Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa at No. 3 and Georgia's Jake Fromm at No. 10.

Klatt has long been a fan of Justin Herbert, with the analyst saying before the 2018 season that Herbert would be the first quarterback drafted in 2019 if he elected to leave for the draft.

ESPN's NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper believes that Justin Herbert has the ability to be picked No. 1 overall. The ESPN expert was talking about the quarterbacks for the 2020 NFL draft earlier this week and said either Herbert or Tagovailoa will likely be the No. 1 pick next year.

“Accuracy, decision making need to improve,” Kiper said of Herbert. “He’s got the awesome talent, size, arm, athletic ability. He puts it all together and really becomes the quarterback we feel he’s capable of being, Justin Herbert has a chance to be in the mix to be the No. 1 pick overall, and certainly in the top-five-to-10 area in the draft, as well. He’s one of the elite players, potentially, if the accuracy and decision making is what it needs to be.”

The quarterback decided to return to Oregon for his senior season, announcing the decision a week before Oregon faced Michigan State in the RedBox Bowl. Over his three seasons at Oregon, Herbert has thrown for 7070 passing yards, 63 passing touchdowns, and 17 interceptions, adding another 510 rushing yards and 9 rushing touchdowns. Herbert became a midseason starter during his freshman season in 2016, the first true freshman starter for the Ducks since 1983. The quarterback also missed five games in 2017 with a broken collarbone.