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Sooners ranked 16th in ESPN’s team recruiting rankings with plenty of time to rise

Oklahoma’s 19 commits have them No. 16 on ESPN’s team recruiting rankings. Craig Haubert takes a look at Oklahoma’s class.

The Oklahoma Sooners went from zero commits in the class of 2024 to 19 pledges in a little over four months. Their first one of the cycle came when four-star cornerback Jeremiah Newcombe out of Arizona announced his commitment out of nowhere on March 25. Since then, the Sooners have been rolling along, progressively claiming the recruiting rankings where they sit 16th with a massive commitment decision looming on August 26 for five-star defensive tackle David Stone. His commitment could help vault Oklahoma ever so close to the top 10.

ESPN has the Sooners ranked 16th overall (ESPN+) with seven commitments in the ESPN300. The Sooners are also the top team in the Big 12 in their latest update.

That seems right in line with other services like 247Sports, who also have Brent Venables’ team slotted at No. 16 in their team rankings. Craig Haubert of ESPN had this to say about Oklahoma. The Sooners’ win over USC for [autotag]Taylor Tatum[/autotag] is the highlight of the class thus far.

One of the top RBs in the class, Taylor Tatum has put up impressive testing numbers on the camp circuit, and that translates to his play as he brings a dangerous blend of speed and power.  – Haubert, ESPN

Oklahoma’s recruiting haul has been heavy on the offensive side of the ball. 13 of their 19 commits will be featured in [autotag]Jeff Lebby[/autotag]’s offense. The top three prospects in Oklahoma’s class, according to ESPN. Tatum comes in as the No. 38 prospect in the nation. But the Sooners also have other ESPN300 players like wide receivers [autotag]Zion Kearney[/autotag], [autotag]Zion Ragins[/autotag], and [autotag]Ivan Carreon[/autotag], four-star tight end [autotag]Davon Mitchell[/autotag], and four-star quarterback [autotag]Michael Hawkins[/autotag].

Defense is less represented right now, with [autotag]Jaydan Hardy[/autotag] the lone commit in the ESPN300 at No. 146. That could change if Oklahoma wins recruiting battles for blue chip defensive linemen [autotag]David Stone[/autotag] (8/26) and [autotag]Nigel Smith[/autotag] II (9/8) in the coming weeks. The Sooners enter the home stretch of both recruitments as leaders, but recruiting isn’t about how you start but how you finish.

Oklahoma knows that well. Last summer provided much of the same recruiting push we’ve seen this summer. They closed their recruiting class for 2023 by flipping five-star safety [autotag]Peyton Bowen[/autotag] from Oregon on signing day. Could they do the same to five-star EDGE player [autotag]Williams Nwaneri[/autotag]? Recent comments from the Lee’s Summit North prospect suggest the Sooners are still in pursuit despite his commitment Monday to the Missouri Tigers.

There are so many unknowns with this 2024 recruiting class despite Oklahoma’s hot summer. One thing Brent Venables and Co. can hang a hat on is that this staff has shown a penchant for finishing strong on the recruiting trail. The Sooners will look to do the same this fall as well.

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Oklahoma stays hot, lands 14th commit for 2024 in WR Zion Ragins

Oklahoma lands the commitment of consensus four-star wide receiver Zion Ragins over Georgia and Florida State.

There’s something to be said about Oklahoma’s ability to turn up the heat on the recruiting trail the way the Earth heats up from June to August.

Last year, July and August treated Oklahoma so well that it felt as if almost half of their recruiting class committed over those two months. The same summer recruiting explosion is becoming a staple for the Brent Venables era. Oklahoma landed its eighth commitment since June 20th when four-star wide receiver Zion Ragins committed on Tuesday afternoon.

Ragins is simply a blur once he gets going. Adding him to an offense that already likes to run at breakneck speed should give opposing defensive coordinators nightmares.

Ragins’ commitment marks a win for the Sooners in a state recruited so heavily by teams from the SEC and ACC.

The University of Georgia is an easy sell for any top athlete in the Peach State. Emmett Jones and the Sooners coaching staff deserve a lot credit for beating out UGA, Florida State, South Carolina, Miami, and Auburn, among others, for Ragins’ commitment.

The recruitment for Ragins took flight after Jones was hired to coach Oklahoma’s wide receivers after the season. An unofficial visit in January was followed by steady momentum in Oklahoma’s favor, which culminated in an official visit. Ragins would go on to take officials to UGA and Florida State after, but with no commitment to either, Oklahoma felt good about their chances.

Predictions from 247Sports and Rivals trickled in favoring OU and the rest is history.

Landing Ragins gives the Sooners another game-breaker with speed to add to a wide receiver corps that could resemble an SEC track squad.

Last season Ragins accumulated 46 receptions for 557 yards and three touchdowns while also carrying the ball 38 times for 161 yards and two more scores. His speed is elite, with verified times of 10.37, 10.53, 10.57, 10.58, 10.66, and 10.67 in the 100-meter dash. Many evaluators believe he’ll need to add some weight to his 5-foot-8, 165-pound frame to survive Saturdays in college. That didn’t slow down Marquise Brown, but Jerry Schmidt will get the first crack at that next year.

Ragins is the No. 215 prospect in 247Sports’ composite rankings and is a consensus four-star prospect. He joins [autotag]Zion Kearney[/autotag], [autotag]K.J. Daniels[/autotag], [autotag]Dozie Ezukanma[/autotag], and [autotag]Ivan Carreon[/autotag] in a deep wide receiver recruiting class.

With his commitment, the Sooners move up from No. 26 in the 247Sports team rankings to No. 22 and are breathing down the necks of their Red River nemesis, the Texas Longhorns.

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Sooners continue to build momentum for talented 2024 wide receiver

Oklahoma looks to be picking up steam for four-star wide receiver Zion Ragins out of Georgia.

Oklahoma’s recruiting momentum at wide receiver is a sight to behold. Of course, Ohio State has been the standard bearer at wide receiver recruiting for the last several years, but Oklahoma and Emmett Jones are hitting all the right buttons on the recruiting trail.

Oklahoma has four wide receiver commits for the class of 2024: K.J. Daniels, Zion Kearney, Ivan Carreon and Dozie Ezukanma. By the looks of it, the Sooners could be adding a fifth: four-star lightning bolt Zion Ragins.

Ragins is a blur with the ball in his hands, and the Georgia native was predicted to land with Oklahoma by Florida State insider Chris Nee. Nee covers FSU for 247Sports. He doesn’t issue predictions often, but when he does, he doesn’t seem to miss.

Ragins’ heaviest suitors included Florida State, Georgia, Oklahoma and South Carolina. UGA, Oklahoma and Florida State received official visits as the summer unfolded. With weeks passed since Ragins was at any of those officials, the talented wide receiver prospect looks to be sorting things out with a potential decision sometime soon.

Georgia has the hometown advantage, and it is the back-to-back national champion in search of a three-peat. That will hold a lot of weight for a Georgia kid. However, Jones has done a great job to put Oklahoma in a fantastic spot.

Ragins’ ability to stretch the field vertically is a match made in heaven for Oklahoma’s penchant for throwing the deep ball under Jeff Lebby. If the Sooners could land the four-star playmaker, it would all but wrap up one of the best-receiving hauls of the 2024 recruiting cycle.

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Sooners land 4-star wide receiver Ivan Carreon

Oklahoma Sooners land 4-star WR Ivan Carreon a day after he decommitted from Texas Tech.

The Oklahoma Sooners have landed another commitment. Four-star wide receiver Ivan Carreon from Odessa, Tx, is a massive target for the Sooners.

He stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 195 pounds. He’s the exact kind of weapon that could help take this wide receiver room to the next level.

It’s unclear if the Sooners will use him as a wide receiver or put some weight on him and transition him to the tight end spot. One thing is clear, they wanted him bad.

This comes just one day after Carreon decided to decommit from the Texas Tech Red Raiders. He first committed to Texas Tech when current Oklahoma Wide Receiver Coach Emmett Jones was on the Red Raiders staff.

If you look at Jones’ history both at Texas Tech and also when he was a coach for the Kansas Jayhawks, this is the type of receiver he likes.

If you look at the current layout of that room, there are not many people with his size. Carreon joins Zion Kearney, K.J. Daniels, and Dozie Ezukanma in a deep wide receiver class for the Sooners and they may not be done yet.

Parker Thune with OUInsider has reported this should not affect Zion Ragins or Terry Bussey. Both guys the Sooners are going after hard as well.

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Sooners target Ivan Carreon decommits from Texas Tech

Oklahoma Sooners wide receiver target Ivan Carreon decommits from the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Another prediction favors OU in his recruitment.

The Oklahoma Sooners have been picking up momentum on the recruiting trail, with four commitments in the last couple of weeks. The Sooners are still getting good news. Four-star wide receiver [autotag]Ivan Carreon[/autotag] decommitted from Texas Tech on Thursday evening.

The Sooners welcomed Carreon to camp back in the early part of June and subsequently issued an offer to the blue-chip wide receiver. Oklahoma wide receivers coach [autotag]Emmett Jones[/autotag] had been recruiting Odessa, Texas prospect while he was in the same position at Texas Tech. Now with the Sooners, Oklahoma looks to be gaining significant ground in Carreon’s recruitment.

Carreon is an impressive athlete. Not only does he have incredible size at 6-foot-6, but he moves really well in the open field. He’s got really good agility to make defenders miss and displays great breakaway speed to run away with the defense.

He’s a smooth route runner that uses his frame to his advantage and catches the football away from his body.

Though there hasn’t been a 247Sports crystal ball issued in his recruitment, Carreon’s been predicted to the Sooners by SoonerScoop’s Josh McCuistion and On3’s Sam Spiegelman. OUInsider’s Parker Thune has also issued a prediction favoring the Sooners in his recruitment.

Carreon’s a consensus four-star prospect, a top 250 prospect overall, and is considered a top 42 wide receiver prospect in the 2024 recruiting cycle.

The Oklahoma Sooners have already added wide receivers [autotag]Zion Kearney[/autotag], [autotag]K.J. Daniels[/autotag], and [autotag]Dozie Ezukanma[/autotag] and look to be on the verge of adding Ivan Carreon to their ranks. Though listed as a wide receiver, there’s a chance the Sooners could put him to work as a tight end that splits out into the slot or out wide in the passing game.

Update:

Since Ivan Carreon’s decommitment, the Oklahoma Sooners have been predicted to land the four-star wide receiver by OUInsider’s Parker Thune and Texas Tech Insider’s Ben Golan and Jarrett Ramirez.

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Oklahoma Sooners 2024 commitment tracker

Which players are committed to the Oklahoma Sooners 2024 recruiting class and what do they bring to the football field?

The Oklahoma Sooners are hoping to follow a pair of top-10 recruiting classes in 2022 and 2023 with another in the 2024 recruiting cycle. The Sooners’ 6-7 season didn’t affect the finish to the 2023 recruiting class, which finished No. 4 in the nation according to 247Sports.

Brent Venables and his staff are hoping to have a repeat of that success or better and have themselves well-positioned to be near the top of the rankings when it’s all said and done in 2024.

Much of the success of this class will be determined by how well the Oklahoma Sooners recruit the defensive line ahead of their move to the SEC in 2024. In a strong defensive line class, the Sooners are in a good spot with a number of highly-coveted prospects. They finally broke the ice on their defensive line recruiting with the addition of Wyatt Gilmore, the No. 2 player in the state of Minnesota and a four-star prospect.

All eyes turn to players like [autotag]David Stone[/autotag], [autotag]Williams Nwaneri[/autotag], [autotag]Dominick McKinley[/autotag], [autotag]Jayden Jackson[/autotag], [autotag]Nigel Smith[/autotag], [autotag]Danny Okoye[/autotag], [autotag]Jayshawn Ross[/autotag], [autotag]Joseph Jonah-Ajonye[/autotag], and [autotag]Zina Umeozulu[/autotag].

They will not land all of their targets, but Venables, [autotag]Ted Roof[/autotag], [autotag]Todd Bates[/autotag] and [autotag]Miguel Chavis[/autotag] have made a strong impression on an impressive group of defensive line prospects.

Still just over five months out from the early signing period, here’s a look at who is committed to the Oklahoma Sooners as of July 1, 2023.

Texas Tech WR commit Ivan Carreon predicted to flip to Oklahoma by On3

Oklahoma expected to flip 2024 four-star WR Ivan Carreon from the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Flipmas, a season generally reserved for the latter part of the recruiting cycle, may be coming a little early for the Oklahoma Sooners. Oklahoma is working to pull a talented four-star wide receiver away from the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Four-star wide receiver [autotag]Ivan Carreon[/autotag] attended a [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] football camp last week and earned an offer. On Monday, Josh McCuistion of SoonerScoop.com at On3 predicted the Oklahoma Sooners to land the talented 2024 prospect.

Carreon stands 6 feet, 6 inches and weighs just under 200 pounds. He’s a player that knows how to use his size.

Here’s what Sooners Wire’s Bryant Crews had to say in Ivan Carreon’s recruiting profile.

Carreon finished his junior season with 51 catches for 1,168 yards and 14 receiving touchdowns on a 22.9-yard average per catch. He plays basketball and runs track, in which he was a Texas 5A regional qualifier as a sophomore in the 110-meter hurdles. – Crews, Sooners Wire

Carreon displays excellent body control for a player his size. He has great lateral agility and breakaway speed to run away from the defense after the catch.

Carreon is a top 300 player in the 2024 recruiting cycle and is ranked No. 11 overall by ESPN. Oklahoma has a pair of wide receivers committed: [autotag]Zion Kearney[/autotag] and [autotag]K.J. Daniels[/autotag]. The Sooners are in hot pursuit of five-star wide receiver Bryant Wesco. However, the Sooners like what they see in Carreon. If the prediction holds true, Carreon apparently likes what he sees in Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma offers four-star WR and Texas Tech commit Ivan Carreon

Oklahoma offered Ivan Carreon, a four-star receiver from Odessa, Texas. Carreon was previously recruited by Emmett Jones at Texas Tech.

Oklahoma has already secured commitments from two 2024 wide receivers, four-star [autotag]Zion Kearney[/autotag] and three-star [autotag]K.J. Daniels[/autotag]. Both players are talented and have tantalizing traits that the Sooners should be excited about.

Oklahoma remains in an intense battle for five-star receiver [autotag]Bryant Wesco[/autotag], and while the Sooners have done a lot of heavy lifting, the battle is far from over.

While that recruitment rages on, Oklahoma will continue to recruit other receivers.

Their latest offer goes to another 2024 receiver, Ivan Carreon, a 6-foot-6 playmaker from Odessa High School. Carreon is currently a Texas Tech commit and was recruited at Texas Tech by none other than current Oklahoma wide receivers coach Emmett Jones. There’s quite a relationship between the two, and after coming to compete at an Oklahoma last week, Carreon received an offer.

It remains to be seen how Jones’ new location may affect his relationship with Carreon. Still, if anything, the familiarity between the two is noteworthy and could play a significant part if this is to move just past the offer phase.

Carreon finished his junior season with 51 catches for 1,168 yards and 14 receiving touchdowns on a 22.9-yard average per catch. He plays basketball and runs track, in which he was a Texas 5A regional qualifier as a sophomore in the 110-meter hurdles.

Ivan Carreon’s Recruiting Profile

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