Immanuel Iheanacho

Immanuel Iheanacho (born November 20, 2007) is an American college football offensive lineman for the Oregon Ducks.

Early life Iheanacho grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and began playing basketball after his older brother grew concerned that he was too inactive after school. "It all seemed so foreign, but I fell in love with basketball completely," he said. "I loved everything about it." As a sophomore, he helped the team to an 8–2 record and a share of the Interstate Athletic Conference (IAC) title, and was the lone underclassman to earn Private Schools Division II all-state honors from the Maryland Football Foundation (MFF).

Iheanacho did not allow a single sack at left tackle for the final two years of his dominant high school career, with The Washington Post writing that he "quite literally stood head and shoulders above the competition." As a junior, he was named the IAC Offensive Player of the Year and garnered first-team All-Met accolades from The Washington Post as Georgetown Prep went 7–2 and captured the IAC title outright. Iheanacho was also honored as a consensus all-state selection as well as the Private Schools Division II Player of the Year by the MFF. That offseason, he participated in the Under Armour All-America Game. As a senior, Iheanacho helped his team claim a share of the IAC title. Additionally, he once again played in the Under Armour All-America Game.

Recruiting Iheanacho was rated as a consensus five-star recruit and a consensus top-25 prospect nationally in the class of 2026. Following official visits to each school, Iheanacho verbally committed to playing college football for the Oregon Ducks during a live appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on July 3, 2025. He signed his National Letter of Intent with the Ducks that December, saying: "It has the campus, academics, facilities, city, coaches and players that I was looking for. Oregon is the program I want to be a part of."

Personal life Iheanacho's parents emigrated to the United States from Nigeria. His mother worked as a registered nurse at a juvenile detention center and his father was a corrections officer in a penitentiary. Iheanacho has a younger brother named Michael who also plays football.