CeeDee Lamb is the icing on a masterful cake for Oklahoma.
The 2017 offense that started in the 2018 Rose Bowl is well known. Members include: Baker Mayfield, Orlando Brown, Mark Andrews, Marquise Brown and CeeDee Lamb. Gary Patterson of TCU could not figure them out. Georgia was running around with its head cut off in the first half of the Rose Bowl.
Lamb’s selection in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft gives that 2017 offense nine starters selected in the NFL Draft.
“It was obviously a really good group,” said Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley on Wednesday during a conference call. “Kind of a combination of guys from everywhere. That first group that we had two years to develop. It’s a great group for us. Skill sets aren’t always going to be the same, but you had impact players at each position and on top of that high-character guys who played well together. Because of that you had a historically good offense. Great group for us for any side of the ball, but certainly we’re just trying like heck to get back there again.”
Here is how Oklahoma’s offense panned out:
Baker Mayfield—Round one, pick one
Rodney Anderson—Round six, pick 211
Dimitri Flowers—Undrafted
Mark Andrews—Round three, pick 85
Marquise Brown—Round one, pick 25
CeeDee Lamb—Round one, pick 17
Orlando Brown—Round three, pick 83
Ben Powers—Round four, pick 124
Erick Wren—Undrafted
Dru Samia—Round four, pick 114
Bobby Evans—Round three, pick 97
The 2018 Oklahoma offense, which was statistically better than the 2017 offense, will need Trey Sermon or Kennedy Brooks to get drafted to match 2017’s nine draft picks from the starting lineup.
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