The 2021 recruiting cycle will come to a close on Feb. 3 as National Signing Day is almost upon us. The Oklahoma Sooners currently sit with the No. 10 class in the country. On Wednesday, the class will be all wrapped up and the team can focus on the upcoming season. It remains to be seen as to whether or not there will be a spring game this year.
Looking beyond the 2021 recruiting cycle and the 2021 college football season, we have the 2022 recruiting class. The Sooners already have four commitments, with three coming at wide receiver. One of those three, Luther Burden of Cardinal Ritter College Prep in St. Louis, Missouri, was named to the MaxPreps Junior All-American team.
Oklahoma commit was selected on the Class 3A first team by the Missouri Football Coaches Association.
Burden was named along with Ryan Peppins of Thompson (Alabaster, AL) as the two first-team wide receivers. On the defensive side of the ball, fellow Sooners commit Kobie McKinzie of Cooper (Lubbock, TX), was named to the first-team defense at linebacker.
Oklahoma commit was a monster during his junior year and has some of the game’s most impressive tape.
On the second-team offense, MaxPreps listed another Oklahoma commit in wide receiver Talyn Shettron of Edmond-Sante Fe.
Oklahoma commit hauled in 61 receptions for 1,152 yards and 14 touchdowns for the runner-up in 6A-I.
This trio of commits looks to be huge building blocks for the 2022 recruiting class as they get underway in the coming weeks. Lincoln Riley appears to be putting together yet another class of athletes who can get the Sooners over the hump and into the National Championship game.
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