STILLWATER – The NCAA Transfer Portal window for post spring football opens up on Saturday, April 15 and Oklahoma State already has a player that has announced he will go in it. Offensive left tackle Caleb Etienne, who started all 13 games last season announced on Friday he will be going into the portal. He left a message for “Cowboy Nation” on his Twitter account.
The move was not a surprise to Oklahoma State coaches. Etienne had been in competition for his position during the spring. The transfer in of Dalton Cooper, an All-SunBelt Conference player at Texas State and a native of Prague, Okla. was in part to encourage competition at the tackle position and Cooper was performing well right up until an injury sidelined him for the rest of spring. He is expected back for the summer workouts and ready for the upcoming season. In addition to Cooper, true freshman Jack Endean (6-6, 297) has come in and been very impressive and red-shirt freshman Calvin Harvey (6-8, 325) has re-shaped his body and been an impressive performer during the spring. Another tackle candidate is UNLV transfer Noah McKinney (6-5, 317) plus Cole Brimingham (6-5, 325) coming back can pay either guard or tackle.
To be fair, Etienne was a standout recruit coming out of powerhouse Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, La. He was a starter on their state finals team that went 12-3 as a senior.
He ended up going to junior college at Fort Scott where he was a first-team NJCAA All-American honoree. He transferred to Butler County C.C., which did not play in the fall of 2020 due to COVID. he then graduated and transferred to Oklahoma State, but there was a lot of rust and he needed time to get into playing shape and come back. Etienne did start every game in 2022, but there were times he struggled.
Hopefully, a change of scenery will help his performance. Meanwhile,it give Oklhaoma State a scholarship to use immediately and it is likely that will happen and it will be used on the offensive line. There are some candidates.
He has a plantair fasciitis issue in one foot (kind of like bone spurs). It's nothing serious but he will probably need to play with the thick padded insole in his game cleats!pokeacola said:
How badly is D Cooper hurt? What was his injury?
