There is a ton of momentum to having a 2020 college football season these days. No definite signs, yet, but the season would start less than 100 days from now.
Sooners Wire will be creating player cards for readers to be introduced to the 2020 roster.
Here is No. 26 for Oklahoma.
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Name: Kennedy Brooks
Number: No. 26
Year: Redshirt junior
Position: Running back
Hometown: Mansfield, TX
Height/Weight: 5-foot-11, 214 pounds
Kennedy Brooks is destined for a big year.
A four-star recruit out of the 2017 Oklahoma class, Brooks took only one unofficial visit to Baylor before committing to Oklahoma in early October of 2016. He amassed 7,658 yards and 96 touchdowns at Mansfield high school in Texas.
As a Sooner, Brooks has had to share the spotlight year after year, and has still managed to produce. A 1,000-yard rusher last season, Brooks finished with the second most rushing yards on the team behind quarterback Jalen Hurts.
In 2020, Brooks is destined to have the spotlight. Hurts was an anomaly, and Brooks will almost surely not have to give up that much of the rushing workload to his quarterback the rest of his career, be it Spencer Rattler or Tanner Mordecai. Backup Trey Sermon, who carried a significant amount of the workload the past couple years, has now transferred to Ohio State. Rhamondre Stevenson will more than likely miss the first five games of the season due to a 2019 suspension, leaving the experienced Brooks, as well as TJ Pledger and Marcus Major, who have seen little action. A big season could propel Brooks into early round draft talk.
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