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Every offseason teams around college football have to deal with a significant amount of turnover to their roster. That’s been the case for the Sooners each season of the Brent Venables era.
No position group was hit harder than the offensive line. They lost the five guys that were starters for the majority of the season. Though they’ve been able to retool the lineup with transfer portal additions, it will be months before we know if those additions will work out.
Elsewhere, however, the Sooners look to be in really good shape, especially when you compare it to how several positions looked this time last year.
Here are five position groups that look better compared to where they were a year ago.
Wide Receiver
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Arguably the biggest question mark on offense heading into 2023 was at wide receiver. Jalil Farooq was back and so was Drake Stoops. But neither had big-time production prior to 2023.
Oklahoma added Andrel Anthony via the transfer portal, but his production was limited at Michigan.
There were blue-chip prospects on the roster, but Nic Anderson and Jayden Gibson hadn’t really played much.
Well, all the questions were answered in 2023. Anthony and Anderson had breakout seasons. While his production wasn’t the same, so did Gibson.
Sure, you lost Drake Stoops, but the wide receiver room is bringing back everyone else and also added Deion Burks, the best wide receiver in the portal, and an incredible class of wide receivers in the 2024 signing class.
With Anthony, Farooq, Anderson, Gibson, Burks, speedsters Brenen Thompson and Jaquaize Pettaway, and another year of development from Gavin Freeman, the Sooners depth chart is looking much better right now than it did a year ago.
Tight End
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Tight end could have been better in 2023. The addition of Austin Stogner…
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Author : Sooners Wire
Publish date : 2024-01-26 18:06:32
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