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Oklahoma Sooners extend offer to 2024 EDGE Danny Okoye out of Tulsa

The Oklahoma Sooners issued an offer to in-state 2024 EDGE out of Tulsa Danny Okoye.

The latest offer from the Oklahoma Sooners went out to 2024 EDGE rusher Danny Okoye out of Tulsa, Okla. Okoye plays for the Northeast Oklahoma Association of Homeschools.

Currently unrated, Okoye is only getting started in his recruitment. He received his first offer back in May and currently has only seven offers, according to 247Sports, though many more will come in the future.

The first thing that stands out with Danny Okoye is his size. At 6-foot-5, he’s an imposing figure on the field. His length allows him to get in on would-be blockers to keep them from getting any leverage in one-on-one situations. He’s an athletic player with a good first step off the ball and good speed on the rush. Okoye closes on the quarterback quickly, and when he gets a hand on them, they go down. He’s a tenacious player looking to impose his will, whether on the pass rush or as a tight end blocking for the offense.

Entering his junior year, Okoye has all the tools to develop into an elite EDGE for the 2024 class and as he’s now on the radar of the top schools in Oklahoma as well as USC and Texas Tech, it’s likely that development will happen as he attends camps over the remainder of his high school career.

When Okoye announced the offer on Twitter, SoonerScoop’s Josh McCuistion shared his thoughts on social media as well, saying, “Big time pass rusher with elite athletic skills, he’s just scratching the surface of who he can be.”

 

Danny Okoye’s Recruiting Profile

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Day 4 winners, losers as DBs close out 2022 combine, Texas boys dominate

Tyler Browning (@DiabeticTyler) talks about who out of the CBs and safeties saw their stock rise fall as Texas colleges took center stage.

The 2022 NFL combine has officially come to its end. On Sunday defensive backs and special teams took the field and showcased their talents. The Dallas Cowboys saw Trevon Diggs take a massive Year-2 leap, while they didn’t see much from Day 2 rookies Kelvin Joseph and Nahshon Wright. While Anthony Brown is under contract through the next year, Jourdan Lewis is under contract until 2023. It is not out of the realm of possibilities to see the Cowboys go corner yet again at some point in the draft.

Meanwhile, the club is barren at safety once again. Starters Damontae Kazee and Jayron Kearse, along with rotational safety Malik Hooker were all one-year rentals. Donovan Wilson enters the final year of his deal. So who saw their stock rise on the last day of the combine? Who saw it fall?

Teams will now head back to their respective headquarters to get their draft boards in sync and get ready to send scouts out to school’s pro days. Pro days are also an important time in the evaluation process, as some players elect not to work out at the combine and rather wait for their pro day. But for those who did show up in Indy, here’s the winners and losers from the final day of workouts.

ESPN Basketball Power Index Win Probabilities of Oklahoma Men’s First 10 Games

With the Oklahoma Sooners Men’s Basketball season tipping off tonight at Lloyd Noble Arena, how does ESPN’s BPI project their first 10 games?

The Oklahoma Men’s Basketball team will tip off their season opener tonight at 7 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Arena vs. the Northwestern State University Demons.

Oklahoma will debut a new head coach and a bevy of players, ushering in a new era of Oklahoma basketball after Porter Moser took the helm for the retired Lon Kruger.

Leading the way into the 2021-2022 season, Moser will have to help returning starters Elijah Harkless and Umoja Gibson mesh with the incoming transfers that look to make up the Sooners’ corps. Tanner Groves joins the Sooners after a tremendous 2020-2021 season with Eastern Washington. He averaged 17.2 points and eight rebounds per game, leading the Eagles to a Big Sky tournament championship and the NCAA tournament where they fell in a hard-fought game against the Kansas Jayhawks.

He’s joined by his brother Jacob Groves, who averaged 9.3 points and four rebounds per game. But that’s not where all the Oklahoma Sooners received via the transfer portal.

Jordan Goldwire is coming over from the Duke Blue Devils, where he averaged 5.8 points, four assists, 2.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game last season. He’ll help Elijah Harkless and Umoja Gibson from a formidable defensive trio at the guard position for Porter Moser.

Ethan Chargois provides depth at forward after spending four seasons with SMU. In 2020-2021, he averaged 8.8 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game for the Mustangs. Marvin Johnson comes over from Eastern Illinois, where he averaged 15.3 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 4.7 assists per game last season.

In Porter Moser’s first season with the Sooners, he looks to have collected a very well-rounded group of players. How quickly they’re able to mesh together will determine how they perform to start the season.

Looking ahead to start the season, let’s check out how the Sooners are expected to perform in their first 10 games using ESPN’s Basketball Power Index.