Former backup quarterback Nate Costa will be returning to the Autzen Stadium sidelines in the fall to work as a graduate assistant for Mark Helfrich’s Ducks.

Costa has recently worked with Comcast Sportsnet Northwest in Portland, and it was on-air for CSNW that he announced he’d be returning.

His Oregon career was punctuated by injuries, causing him to take a year off in 2008 after entering the season as the presumed starting quarterback.  His career was officially ended in 2010 when he re-injured his knee while playing late in one of the Ducks blowouts in Darron Thomas’s first year.