The winter [autotag]transfer portal[/autotag] opened on Monday morning, and the Oklahoma Sooners have already seen plenty of players enter or declare their intention to enter the portal to find their next team for 2025.
This includes at defensive back, where the Sooners will lose [autotag]Kani Walker[/autotag], [autotag]Makari Vickers[/autotag] and [autotag]Erik McCarty[/autotag] to the transfer portal.
Walker started a few games at cornerback the past couple of seasons for OU and will transfer again after starting his career at Louisville. He is a big, physical corner, but was ultimately beaten out by more technique-sound, faster players at the position. The Sooners will be going younger at cornerback next season, unless they add a player or two in the portal themselves.
Vickers was a reserve cornerback who never quite got his footing in Norman. He is a former top 75 player in the class of 2023, according to 247Sports, but he was never able to get past Eli Bowen and Jacobe Johnson, the likely starters of the future at corner. Both Woodi Washington and Dez Malone are out of eligibility, but if Gentry Williams returns and can stay healthy, there’s some reason for optimism on the outside.
McCarty is another reserve from the ’23 class who never got to make an impact in a Sooner uniform. He started his career recovering from an ACL injury suffered in the Oklahoma state championship game during his senior year. Oklahoma had a deep safety room in 2024 and could be very good at the position again in 2025, especially if Robert Spears-Jennings returns.
Now that the transfer portal window is open now until Dec. 28. You can keep up with all of the additions and subtractions from the portal with our transfer portal tracker.