STILLWATER – Isaiah Kema looked good on national television this past Saturday playing center for the Gold Team in the 2022 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Kema, out of Wolfforth Frenship High School just outside of Lubbock, Texas, visited Oklahoma State last weekend and contacted the OSU staff on Sunday and told them he was committing to the Cowboys over Texas A&M, Kansas, and Nebraska among others. Kema was also a first-team All-State player team as a junior.
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Kema at the U.S. Army Bowl in Frisco, Texas
Kema said he felt very much at home at Oklahoma State as the program has had a number of Polynesian culture players and they were comfortable with him going on the two-year LDS mission. Kema visited Oklahoma State with his mother and his sister.
He is 6-4, 298-pounds and has played primarily center and guard for the powerful Frenship program. Watching him play he is a leader on the offensive line and is capable of doing about anything. He is bull run blocker but also has the quickness and punch to pass protect. He is a wrestler in high school, which has served him well in leverage and being quick and balanced on his feet. That may be the most fun thing to watch with Kema is his ability to block on the run and pull down the line of scrimmage even from the center position.
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Kema on his Oklahoma State visit.
For those that are wondering, the NCAA Letter-of-Intent that Kema will sign on Dec. 21 is only good for one-year and Kema will be able to go to any school he wants following mission, but the statistics show that players coming back from mission go back to the school they signed with 92 percent of the time.
Kema seems like a very loyal young man. The mission is a good thing as he will come back needing to work to get back in football shape but he will be an older, wiser, and more mature person and all of that benefits a college football player.
