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Recruits react to time spent with the Oklahoma Sooners at Brent Venables Camp

Closing out the month of July with incredible momentum, the Oklahoma Sooners hosted recruits for Brent Venables’ football camp.

Oklahoma Sooners recruiting is on fire over the last month, adding nine commitments and pushing their class to No. 6 in the 247Sports team composite rankings. With several more players expected to commit to the Sooners in the 2023 cycle, the Sooners have a shot at earning a top-three recruiting class when it’s all said and done.

With July coming to a close and fall camp right around the corner, the Sooners took the opportunity to host recruits across the next three cycles at Brent Venables Football Camp earlier this week.

Venables’ camp has been huge for the Sooners, who found two members of their 2023 recruiting class in [autotag]Keyon Brown[/autotag] and [autotag]Jasiah Wagoner[/autotag] earlier this summer. Casting a wide net over the next few cycles, Venables and his coaching staff are hoping to find players for the future as well as pour into the next crop of collegiate athletes.

With Oklahoma recruiting trending, let’s take a look at what some of the best social media reactions from recruits who camped with the Sooners this week.

After impressive showings at OU Camp, Sooners send offers to multiple recruits from Texas

While hosting his first camp as head coach, Brent Venables and his staff offered multiple players that performed well.

While the 2023 recruiting class is garnering the most attention as they heading into their senior year, the future high school football stars of tomorrow are on the grind working hard trying to earn their offers.

Brent Venables has been a camp advocate for years and his first wave of camps as the head man at Oklahoma allowed him and his staff the opportunity to take a look at some of the best young talent the region has to offer.

Some of Texas’ best-rising sophomores were in attendance and those same players received an offer from the Oklahoma Sooners. While Venables has been selective about Oklahoma and its 2025 offers it seems that with the summer coming and the 2025 class flipping the page into sophomores, Venables and his staff feel much more comfortable extending offers.

One of the offers went out to wide receiver Andrew Marsh of Katy Jordan High School in Fulshear, Texas.

Marsh like his other 2025 counterparts has yet to be ranked on any major databases but Marsh’s high school film shows an explosive vertical threat at wide receiver and a dynamic return man as well.

His ability to make guys miss and high point the ball at its apex is special for someone so young. At six feet as a rising sophomore, it’s entirely possible Marsh can grow even more over the next few years as well.

While Marsh stood out on the offensive side of the ball, Kelvion Riggins of South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, Texas went to work and earned himself an offer from the Oklahoma defensive staff.

Listed as a linebacker on 247Sports, Riggins stands at six-foot-one and 200 pounds. His high school team is fresh off a state championship and his recruitment looks destined to take off.

He’s fast, decisive, and hits with bad intentions for such a young player. He’s a Texas product and it seems all but a formality that the major schools in Texas will also get involved. The notable offers he has so far are Oregon, Miami, Oklahoma State, and Arkansas.

Kelvion Riggins wasn’t the only defensive standout to earn an offer. Davhon Keys of Aledo High School also earned an Oklahoma offer at the camp.

Keys, like Riggins, is listed as a linebacker right now on 247Sports. His offer list is quite impressive early on and looks like he could be very much in line to be a top 100 recruit when the class of 2024 is ranked. He has notable offers from Oklahoma State, Penn State, Clemson, and Texas already. Keys will be a rising junior this fall and should see his recruitment take off if he keeps playing at the level he has been especially considering the level of competition he sees while playing at one of Texas’ notable high school programs at Aledo.

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Oklahoma continues its first look at the class of 2025 with offer to Jourdin Crawford

The Oklahoma Sooners extend an offer to 2025 defensive lineman Jourdin Crawford out of Birmingham, Alabama.

Oklahoma was bullish on extending offers to high school freshmen for many reasons. Now, with those freshmen months away from being sophomores, the Sooners have begun to send out offers more regularly.

Recently, 2025 wide receiver prospect Isaiah Mozee received an offer from the Sooners. Another offer was extended to 2025 defensive lineman Jourdin Crawford from Birmingham, Alabama.

Crawford is just a high school sophomore, but his athletic profile is absolutely that of someone who will likely a top 125 recruit as the years pass by.

 

Alabama is becoming a hotspot for the Sooners to recruit out of after years of shying away from it under Lincoln Riley. Defensive line coach Todd Bates is from Alabama, and he recruited it extensively as a coach while at Clemson. Now at Oklahoma, he’s bringing that same tenacity in recruiting the state of Alabama that he displayed for the Tigers.

As a sophomore, Crawford doesn’t have many offers but that’ll change over the next few months as the class of 2025 starts to round into shape and take over the camp circuit in abundance. The only four offers he holds are  Oklahoma, Michigan, Georgia Tech and Coastal Carolina.

Crawford’s recruitment will be one to follow over the next few years given Bates’ emphasis on recruiting the state of Alabama. The 2023 and 2024 classes have multiple high-level targets with OU offers that hail from Alabama and Todd Bates has been a key figure as the Sooners open up new recruiting grounds.

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Oklahoma sends out a rare offer to 2025 prospect Isaiah Mozee

Oklahoma offers the son of former Sooners running back.

Oklahoma is squarely focused on filling out their 2023 class and laying down the foundation for their 2024 class but that hasn’t stopped them from sending out an offer to soon-to-be elite 2025 prospect Isaiah Mozee. Mozee who plays his high school ball at Lee’s Summit North in Missouri is no stranger to the Crimson and Cream.

Mozee’s father is Jamar Mozee, a former Sooner running back who was a part of the last Sooners’ team to win a national title in 2000. Guess who was part of that team as a co-DC/linebackers coach? Current head coach Brent Venables. Mozee’s Sooners ties are evident and like his father, the younger Mozee is taking high school football by storm. While just a rising sophomore, Mozee possesses elite traits and has caught the attention of some major programs with other elite programs an absolute certainty to come calling.

Mozee also has another valuable link that may work in the Sooners’ favor later on down the road. His current high school teammate is Cayden Green, a consensus four-star offensive tackle being heavily recruited by Oklahoma offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh. A commitment from Green would give the Sooners another voice to help recruit Mozee in the coming years as well.

This recruitment is just getting started but the Sooners already have a crystal ball for Mozee and have multiple angles that are working in their favor currently. Cale Gundy, L’Damian Washington, Jeff Lebby, and the rest of the Sooners’ staff will have to stay on top of their game as the rest of the college football comes calling

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Recruits react to weekend in Norman visiting with the Oklahoma Sooners

Check out what recruits had to say after visiting with the Oklahoma Sooners over the weekend.

It’s recruiting season for Oklahoma Football and over the last couple of weeks since the Sooners’ spring game, the key figures at OU have been out on the road meeting with high schools and building relationships across the country. Beyond recruiting particular kids, Oklahoma is recruiting schools and their coaches to buy into the vision that [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] is putting in place in Norman.

The program welcomed a host of high school athletes across the next three recruiting classes to give them a taste of what Oklahoma football is all about.

Over the weekend, they’ve put out offers to Kristopher Jones, Jordan Pride, Damani Maxson, Jaybron Harvey, and several others. They’re leaving no stone unturned as they look for players that fit what they’re trying to put together.

One notable name in for a weekend visit was transfer wide receiver L.V. Bunkley-Shelton, who is looking for a new home after playing the last two seasons at Arizona State, amassing 44 receptions for 518 yards and two touchdowns.

Safe to say the athletes in attendance came away impressed with their time in Norman and we’ve collected some of the best reactions from the latest recruiting weekend put on by the Oklahoma Sooners.

Social Buzz: What Sooner Nation is saying ahead of the Oklahoma Sooners Spring Game

Social media is buzzing about the return of Baker Mayfield and many other former players for the Oklahoma Sooners 2022 Spring Game.

“Pack the Palace.” You’ve probably heard that phrase over the last month as Oklahoma Sooners head coach Brent Venables has implored Sooner Nation to show up for the 2022 Spring Game. It’s become as common as “uncommon effort,” one of Venables’ key phrases.

Venables put the challenge out to Oklahoma fans to show up earlier in the week and the word is this will be the biggest Spring Game crowd in the history of the program.

The new era of Oklahoma Sooners football is about to start off with a bang in Brent Venables’ first appearance on the Oklahoma sidelines as head coach. To say the fan base is excited about the Spring Game is an understatement. And Venables is excited to put his team on display for the incredibly passionate fan base that is Sooner Nation.

Best reactions from the latest recruiting weekend with the Oklahoma Sooners

Check out some of the best reactions from the Oklahoma Sooners’ latest recruiting event.

The Oklahoma Sooners hosted another crop of recruits over the weekend including players from the 2023, 2024, and 2025 recruiting cycles. Players and their families took in all that the University of Oklahoma and its football program had to offer on a beautiful spring day.

Joining the Sooners over the weekend was highly-coveted five-star defensive tackle [autotag]David Hicks[/autotag], the No. 1 defensive lineman in the country according to the On3 Consensus. The On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine currently has the Sooners ahead of the Texas A&M Aggies by a slight margin. The only Crystal Ball prediction from 247Sports comes from Director of Recruiting Steve Wiltfong who believes that Hicks will land with the Aggies.

[autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] and his crew hosted another highly-touted defensive lineman in the 2023 class in [autotag]Derrick LeBlanc[/autotag] out of Kissimmee, FL. The four-star DL, is the No. 67 player in the 2023 class and the No. 9 defensive lineman. Both On3 and 247Sports believe Florida is the leader to land LeBlanc’s commitment but we’ve seen this coaching staff swoop in and flip players with less time and opportunity.

Oklahoma also hosted a couple of four-star athletes out of the southeast in [autotag]Joseph Stone[/autotag], Jr. and [autotag]Jaylen Mbakwe[/autotag].

With another recruiting visit in the books, let’s look at some of the best reactions from recruits, family, and analysts.