With Super Bowl LV now in the rearview mirror, all attention turns toward the upcoming NFL draft set for late April. Mocks are flying everywhere as fans try to figure out who their team might take, and where their college’s players might land.
For Oklahoma, it is an uncommon position for them recently as they are not expected to have a first-round pick this year. The Sooners have had at least one player taken in the first round each of the last three seasons, including two No. 1 overall picks in Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray, but it looks like this year that may not happen.
In the USA TODAY Sports DraftWire’s latest mock draft, they don’t have an Oklahoma player going in the first 32 picks, but do have someone just on the outside looking in with former center Creed Humphrey. He is slotted at No. 38 overall to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Sooner born, sooner bred, and when I die I’ll be sooner dead. #Boomer pic.twitter.com/f5kn5tLycV
— Creed Humphrey (@creed_humphrey) December 31, 2020
The Bengals’ offensive line was rated as the third-worst in the league in 2020 by Pro Football Focus, so it stands to reason they will be looking for help there to protect quarterback Joe Burrow. The mock draft also has them going upfront for their first-round pick, No. 5 overall, with the highly-touted Penei Sewell out of Oregon.
Sewell and Humphrey together would instantly improve Cincinnati’s offensive line substantially, and help them try to catch up to the rest of the teams in the very competitive AFC North. As it stands today, Humphrey is the only former Sooner projected to go in the first two rounds.
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