Tag: Baker Mayfield

Oklahoma almost had three Heisman winners in a row

December 19, 2019 Charles Biggs

Two out of three isn’t bad. LSU quarterback Joe Burrow was the runaway winner of the Heisman Trophy Saturday night but Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts was second in points. Burrow got 2,608 points while Hurts was a distant second with 762 points. Justin Fields was third with 747 points and Chase Young was fourth with…

Brock Vandagriff, No. 1 QB in the nation, commits to OU

July 4, 2019

The best player in America will play football for the Oklahoma Sooners. But quarterback Brock Vandagriff first has to finish high school and he won’t sign with the Sooners until sometime perhaps in 2020. His high school class graduates in 2021. Rivals.com has already named the record-setting quarterback as not only the best pro-style quarterback…

Murray leads list of Big 12 draftees

May 9, 2019

Thanks to Oklahoma, the Big 12 Conference made a splash during the recent NFL Draft. Oklahoma quarterback and 2018 Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray was the top overall selection by the Arizona Cardinals. With the pick, OU became the first school to have QBs go as the top draft choice in consecutive seasons after 2017…

Quarterback choice looms for Oklahoma

April 18, 2019

There’s a good chance that Oklahoma will start a transfer quarterback for the third season in row this fall. In 2017, Texas Tech transfer Baker Mayfield started and in 2018 Texas A&M transfer Kyler Murray started. Both won the Heisman Trophy. Mayfield was the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft and that could happen…

NFL is ‘not for long’ for some players with Oklahoma ties

January 17, 2019 Charles Biggs

I used to be a big Dallas Cowboy fan but I have lost interest. It’s not that I don’t root for Dallas, it’s just that they don’t have any players that draw my interest. I loved to watch former Dallas quarterback Tony Romo. He was an escape artist and he was deadly accurate with his…