Last year the weakest part of the Oklahoma Sooners offense was undoubtedly the tight end position. A big reason for that was there was no depth behind [autotag]Austin Stogner[/autotag] meaning he was asked to do it all.
One of the key reasons for not having any depth was due to the season-long injury suffered by [autotag]Kaden Helms[/autotag]. Helms was once a promising recruit in the 2022 recruiting class. Coming out of Nebraska, he was a top 10 tight end in the country and rated as a four-star player.
In his career, he has just one catch, and we haven’t seen him on the field since the game against the Kansas Jayhawks in his freshman season in 2022. But now he is back on the practice field and has kind of been the forgotten man in at tight end.
He spoke to reporters about how his health is doing right now. “My health is pretty good actually,” Helms said. “I was practicing at the beginning of spring ball, kind of getting back into things. I’m kind of doing some lighter stuff, not even knee related, so I can get back out here in the next couple of days. Overall, I’m really excited about how I’m coming along.”
Helms now joins a room that has better depth, but doesn’t have much experience. Transfer [autotag]Bauer Sharp[/autotag] has been the talk of the spring ball so far, but he just recently switched to playing tight end. Then of course you have the highly-touted true freshman [autotag]Davon Mitchell[/autotag]. The only player with a lot of experience is [autotag]Jake Roberts[/autotag].
So, if Helms can get back to fully healthy, he can crack the rotation and show why he was such a highly-touted recruit coming out of high school. But first, it all starts with getting and staying healthy.
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