5 Oklahoma freshmen we look forward to watching vs. UTEP

With the Sooners set to take on the UTEP Miners, here are five freshmen we’re looking forward to seeing on Saturday.

Brent Venables and his coaching staff did a tremendous job finishing the 2022 cycle with the No. 8 recruiting class. There’s a lot of talent in this group. Notably 15 true freshmen cracked the game one depth chart released earlier this week.

Those freshmen came right in and got to work. The mid-year enrollees spent the winter and spring reshaping their bodies and learning the ins and outs of the playbooks.

With so many true freshmen on the depth chart and a game against an opponent that Oklahoma should beat comfortably, we could see quite a few of these freshmen getting game action this weekend. We took the liberty of tossing out the five freshmen to we’re looking forward to watching.

Oklahoma 2020 player card: No. 41 Jake McCoy

Sooners Wire will be creating player cards for readers to be introduced to the 2020 roster. Here is the No. 41 for Oklahoma.

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 the No. 41 for Oklahoma.

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Name: Jake McCoy 

Number: No. 41

Year: Redshirt freshman 

Position: Linebacker

Hometown: Edmond, Oklahoma

Height/Weight: 6-foot-2, 216 pounds


Jack McCoy is among many of the walk-on program at Oklahoma.

A product of Edmond North High School, McCoy blew up on the Oklahoma high school scene his senior season. As a sophomore and junior, he didn’t make his presence known, but as a senior, McCoy registered 135 tackles and two sacks playing at the highest level of football in the state.

The Sooners have a history of walk-ons needing to play meaningful snaps at the linebacker position. Caleb Gastelum did as such in 2014 and Brian Mead has, too, in 2018 and ’19.

McCoy has yet to play a snap for Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma 2020 player card: No. 41 Jake McCoy

Sooners Wire will be creating player cards for readers to be introduced to the 2020 roster. Here is the No. 41 for Oklahoma.

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 the No. 41 for Oklahoma.

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Name: Jake McCoy 

Number: No. 41

Year: Redshirt freshman 

Position: Linebacker

Hometown: Edmond, Oklahoma

Height/Weight: 6-foot-2, 216 pounds


Jake McCoy is among many of the walk-on program at Oklahoma.

A product of Edmond North High School in Oklahoma, McCoy came to the Sooners after playing both sides of the football as a senior in high school. He recorded 135-plus tackles and two sacks from the linebacker position. McCoy was a member of the walk-on class in 2019.

For Oklahoma, he is playing linebacker. At that position, McCoy could have a chance to make an impact at some point down the road with the lack of depth and being with defensive coordinator Alex Grinch from the beginning.

He has yet to play a down for the Sooners yet.

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