Oklahoma State Signs 2023 December Transfer Class

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State Cowboy football announced the signing of all seven of the transfers who have committed in the past few weeks.

You can see the complete class of high school and JUCO players who signed with the Pokes on Wednesday HERE.

**Note: OSU’s transfers, like all NCAA Transfer Portal players, do not sign any paperwork other than a financial aid agreement, which binds Oklahoma State to providing academic aid and room and board for the transferring player. The player is not bound to the school until either attending a class or practicing with the program. Oklahoma State hopes to have as many of the transfer players as possible to Arizona on the bowl trip to practice, which the NCAA has now made possible again for mid-year transfers.**

We’ll go through the list of transfer signees alphabetically, starting with Texas State transfer, Dalton Cooper.

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Dalton Cooper, OL, 6-6, 320 pounds, Prague, OK/Texas State University

Date committed: 12/14/2022

Eligibility remaining: Two years

Cooper started 36 consecutive games at Texas State and has been honored for his performance in the Sun Belt Conference. After playing one game in his redshirt freshman season of 2019, Cooper started his streak of starting games in 2020. He earned Freshman All-American honors from The Athletic and was named by the coaches to the All-Sun Belt Conference team as an honorable mention selection. 

In 2021 the coaches named him to the All-Sun Belt team (third team) and Pro Football Focus, the analytics people, named him first-team All-Sun Belt Conference. The top-rated left tackle in the conference based on PFF ratings, Cooper only surrendered three sacks on 450 pass plays and played 814 total snaps (810 at left tackle). In all, he played just under 2,600 snaps for Texas State University.

Cooper was a unanimous preseason All-Sun Belt pick in 2022. 

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Anthony Goodlow, DE, 6-4, 286 pounds, Del City, OK/Tulsa University

Date committed: 12/17/2022

Eligibility remaining: One year

Goodlow had 44 tackles last season for Tulsa with 8.0-tackles-for-loss and 2.0-sacks. He broke up two passes and had four quarterback hurries. In the 2021 season he exploded for 7.0 tackles-for-loss and 6.0-sacks for negative 33-yards. He also recovered a fumble

In the 2020 season he had 32-tackles with 5.5 tackles-for-loss, and 4.0-sacks. He forced a fumble and broke up a pass. He played primarily on special teams in 2019 and he red-shirted in 2018.

At Del City High School Goodlow had 105 tackles, 30-tackles-for-loss, and 19-sacks. He also forced three fumbles. As a linebacker and defensive end as a senior he was the District Player of the Year. Playing for Mike Dunn with the Eagles and former OSU player Robert Jones as the defensive coordinator Goodlow was a safety as a junior. 

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Kenneth Harris, CB, 6-0, 193 pounds, Columbia, LA/Arkansas State University

Date committed: 12/18/2022

Eligibility remaining: Two years

Harris started all 12 games this past season and has played in 31 games total and started 18 games including four starts in his true freshman season in 2020 coming out of Caldwell Parrish High School in Columbia, La. This season Harris had 36 total tackles with 29 unassisted. He had 4.5 tackles-for-loss and 10 passed defended. 

For a comparison this season Pro Football Focus graded out Muhammad, a full year more experienced at 76.3 overall and Harris had a grade of 69.7. Both players have been playing since their freshman season. 

Harris played in 10 games as a freshman and started four of those. He had 24 tackles,20 unassisted and broke up two passes on the road at Kansas State. 

His sophomore season he started a pair of games and played in nine total with 11 tackles, nine unassisted, and picked off two passes.

Harris is an honor roll student at Arkansas State.

In high school he was second-team All-State by the Louisiana Sportswriters and was a two-time All-District 3-3A player at wide receiver and corner.

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Noah McKinney, OL, 6-5, 290 pounds, Henderson, NV/UNLV

Date committed: 12/18/2022

Eligibility remaining: Four years

McKinney redshirted this past season as a freshman for Rebels before entering the portal following the dismissal of head coach Marcus Arroyo at the end season. In fact, Arroyo is the one who got McKinney and the Cowboy coaching staff in touch with one another as Arroyo is helping all his former players who are in the portal find new schools.

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De’Zhaun Stribling, WR, 6-3, 205 pounds, Kapolei, Hawaii/Washington State

Date committed: 12/12/2022

Eligibility remaining: Two years

This past season at Washington State, Stribling used a big bowl performance a season ago in the Sun Bowl to build off of and haul in 51 receptions for 602-yards and five touchdowns. He had five receptions for 84-yards and a touchdown against Oregon. He had four receptions for 66-yards and a touchdown against Pac-12 Champion Utah.  

As a freshman, Stribling caught 44 passes for 471 yards and five touchdowns, leading all Pac-12 freshman in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, which led to him being tabbed All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention.

As a senior in high school, he was named to the All-State Second Team by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser after catching 64 passes for 872 yards and nine touchdowns. He scored three touchdowns in one game, one rushing, one receiving and one passing. Stribling was selected to play in the 2020 Polynesian Bowl and named one of the top five offensive standouts with three catches for 58 yards At Kapolei, he also played basketball and competed in the high jump.

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Sean Tyler, RB, 5-8, 185 pounds, Richton Park, Ill./Western Michigan

Date committed: 12/12/2022

Eligibility remaining: Two years

On the season for the Broncos, Tyler had 1,097-yards and seven touchdowns on 209 carries. He averaged 4.9-yards a carry. He had 1,150-yards and nine touchdowns in his 2021 season. In his career at Western Michigan (four seasons) he has 2,830-yards and 23 touchdowns on 495 carries. He has averaged 5.9-yards a carry. Tyler appears to have two seasons; a fifth year and his COVID-19 season left to play.

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Justin Wright, LB, 6-2, 244 pounds, Abilene, TX/Tulsa University

Date committed: 12/07/2022

Eligibility remaining: One year

In his redshirt sophomore season Wright had 62 tackles in the shortened pandemic season with 9.0 tackles-for-loss and 1.5 sacks. He also had an interception and a fumble recovery.

In the 2021 season Wright tied for the team lead in tackles with 82 stops, 5.5 tackles-for-loss, and 3.5 sacks. He is a ball hawker and had an interception with a fumble forced, and a fumble recovered.

This past season concluded with Tulsa scoring a 37-30 upset over Houston last Saturday that Wright was instrumental in helping happen. He had 101 tackles this season with 10.5 tackles-for-loss, 2.0 sacks, two interceptions, two fumbles recovered, and a fumble forced. 

He most recently was honored by the AAC as the Defensive Player of the Week after Tulsa’s game with Memphis. Wright had a game high 13 tackles, a sack, 2.5 tackles for loss, a forced fumble, a pass breakup and a QB hurry in the game.