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Coach Brent Venables picked up help early Friday at one of the Oklahoma football team’s positions of need. Friday night, however, yielded some bad news.
Tight end Lance Mason, a Sooners’ target at the position in the spring transfer portal window, chose Wisconsin over Oklahoma and Purdue on Friday. Mason caught 34 passes for 580 yards and six touchdowns for FCS Missouri State last year.
Oklahoma currently has seven tight ends on its roster, but few with real experience in a Sooners uniform. OU lost its starting tight end from last season, Bauer Sharp, to LSU via the winter transfer portal. He played just one year in Norman after transferring from Southeastern Louisiana. The only tight end on Oklahoma’s roster who caught a pass for the Sooners last year is junior Kaden Helms, a former four-star recruit who has battled injuries since arriving on campus as part of the 2022 recruiting class.
Venables previously added tight ends from the portal earlier in the cycle. John Locke Jr. transferred in from Louisiana Tech, Will Huggins from Division II Pittsburg State and Carson Kent from Kennesaw State. Oklahoma’s pursuit, though, of an eighth tight end suggests Venables and his staff are not comfortable with their current crop.
Sharp’s 34 receptions in 2024 led the team and were the highest number of grabs by an Oklahoma tight end since Mark Andrews caught 62 passes in his All-Big 12 first-team honors in 2017.
The Sooners signed kicker Tate Sandell from the transfer portal earlier on Friday.
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Publish date : 2025-04-26 11:02:00
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