2023 Position Review and Recruiting Outlook: Sooners’ linebackers shine in bounceback year

The Sooners showed a lot of growth at the linebacker position in 2023. Now they hope to build upon that going into next season.

The Oklahoma Sooners’s linebacker group is our next [autotag]position review[/autotag]. Overall, the group produced an All-American and the young guys at the position showed a ton of promise as well.

[autotag]Danny Stutsman[/autotag] was the leader of the whole defense. He’s been named to two All-American teams. [autotag]Jaren Kanak[/autotag] showed flashes of what he can be but also showed his youth.

[autotag]Kip Lewis[/autotag] and [autotag]Kobie McKinzie[/autotag] came along at the end of the season as well, making this group one of the deeper groups on the team. [autotag]Lewis Carter[/autotag] and [autotag]Samuel Omosigho[/autotag] were mainly special teams contributors but did see some playing time toward the end of the year.

The recruiting class, though, isn’t a great one, so let’s take a look at the linebacker position.