Who will represent the Sooners at next week’s SEC Media Days?

SEC Media Days are less than a week away, and there is a palpable energy, to say the least. This is the first media days session that will include Oklahoma and Texas.

This media event marks the first time Nick Saban will not attend SEC Media Days since he took the Alabama job in 2007.

Coaches, players, and media luminaries make this multi-day event compelling for all involved with SEC football.

For Oklahoma, they enter this media day with quiet confidence. The Sooners know who they are, and Brent Venables has done an admirable job preparing his program for the SEC on and off the field. We are less than two months away from seeing them put it on the field. As they adapt to their new conference home, the Sooners seem to be in the right state of mind.

Brent Venables has chosen who he will send to SEC Media Days as his student-athlete representatives.

Unsurprisingly, Billy Bowman, Danny Stutsman, and Jackson Arnold are Venables’ choices. Bowman and Stutsman are both seniors and leaders on this team. Jackson Arnold gets the nod because he is the starting quarterback and has taken on a major leadership role in the offense in his first full year as a starter.

Arnold will have to balance the newfound responsibility as the Oklahoma starting quarterback on and off the field. There is a level of leadership that comes with it. He didn’t have nearly as much responsibility sitting behind Dillon Gabriel. Now that Arnold is the guy, he’ll be tasked with being much more of a leader and producing like the Sooners believe he’s capable of.

Stutsman and Bowman passed up the NFL a year early to return and play Oklahoma’s inaugural season in the SEC. They are playing for their present and future. They will be pillars on the team trying to make their way back to the College Football Playoff and improve their draft stocks as both are…

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Author : Sooners Wire

Publish date : 2024-07-09 17:26:33

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