Tag: Zacchaeus McKinney

How are Oklahoma football transfers performing with their new programs?

How are former Oklahoma Sooners like Tanner Mordecai doing with their new schools in 2021?

The Oklahoma Sooners have been big-time beneficiaries of the transfer portal over the years. The story on QBU’s been told, but Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray and Jalen Hurts transferring in helped pave the way for Lincoln Riley’s tenure in Norman. As much as those players benefited from the transfer portal, there have been some who’ve benefited by finding a fresh start by leaving the Oklahoma Sooners and finding a new place to call home.

SMU and Tanner Mordecai were off to a 7-0 start before dropping Saturday night’s game to Houston, whose only loss came to Texas Tech in the season opener. Mordecai has played great this year and set a single-game SMU record for passing touchdowns in the opener.

After Week 9, let’s take a look at what the players Oklahoma lost in the transfer portal in 2021 have been up to this year.

Oklahoma DL Zacchaeus McKinney has reportedly entered the transfer portal

Oklahoma, especially Alex Grinch, will give players a pretty good idea if they have a chance of making an impact at some point. 

Oklahoma, especially Alex Grinch, will give players a pretty good idea if they have a chance of making an impact at some point.

Grinch has talked about wanting to play 22 or more players every week. The Oklahoma defense has gotten close to that point, as the Sooners offense has been rotating players in and out for much of the year at each position group.

The Sooners’ defensive line is stout and newcomers as well as future players continue to get better and better. Redshirt junior Zacchaeus McKinney has not been a part of those plans in the second year of Grinch’s system.

He has reportedly been the first player for the Sooners to enter the transfer portal for 2020.

Oklahoma and Grinch lost seven players off its roster in 2019 to the transfer portal. The Sooners are trying to turn over this defense as much as possible with players recruited by the second-year defensive coordinator.

McKinney came to the Sooners as a three-star recruit from Weatherford, Texas. He played in one game during his three years and change at Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma 2020 player card: No. 98 Zacchaeus McKinney

Sooners Wire will be creating player cards for readers to be introduced to the 2020 roster. Here is the No. 98 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. 98 for Oklahoma.

Name: Zacchaeus McKinney

Number: No. 98

Year: Redshirt junior

Position: Defensive line

Hometown: Weatherford, Texas

Height/Weight: 6-foot-3, 258 pounds

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