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Oklahoma State Football Recruiting

New ESPN 300 is Out and Like Mike Gundy Said: OSU Does Offer the Top Tier

April 5, 2024
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STILLWATER – Oklahoma State has begun to entertain football prospects for the 2025 class for official visits as the recruiting calendar has gone into an active recruiting period. Close to 30 official visits will happen this month including the cover player on this story in Richland, Texas running back Michael Turner, who is No. 200 on the most recently released ESPN 300.

Before April 1 in the first three spring football practices and continuing this week the Oklahoma State recruiting and coaching staff have welcomed a large number, the most in memory, of unofficial visitors to those practices. There were 18 unofficial visits by prospects for the first practice and then 19 were there for the first Saturday practice on March 30.

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Recruits including Adam Schobel (black shirt) and his family at O’Brate Stadium.

This week there are eight official visitors on campus. They will be eating wings, angus burger sliders, hot dogs and more in the outfield at Bedlam baseball in O’Brate Stadium on Friday night. There is practice on Saturday morning and a more formal meal on Saturday evening. Spring recruiting has been very siuccesful for Mike Gundy and company.

“People don’t think we offer the top recruits, but we do,” Gundy said earlier this spring. “We offer those players we think fit us and some of them buy in, others don’t give us a chance. We try to get them to come to campus. What we do as a program is find the right guys that fit and will develop in our system.”

ESPN came out with their latest ESPN Top 300. Here is a rundown of those players Oklahoma State has offered and where their recruiting status is with regards to the OSU program. 

ESPN 300 Ranking Prospect Prospect Information Situation with Oklahoma State
9 Michael Fasusi OT, 6-5, 290, Lewisville, Texas  Offered, but not actively being recruited
39 Chad Woodfork DE, 6-5, 220, Houston (Summer Creek), Texas Still being recruited and showing interest
54 Lamont Rogers OT, 6-7, 305, Mesquite (Horn), Texas Offered but not actively being recruited
63 Riley Pettijohn OLB, 6-2, 210, McKinney, Texas Trending down and not showing interest in OSU
70 Lance Jackson DE, 6-5, 245, Texarkana (Pleasant Grove), Texas Verbally committed to Texas
72 Michael Terry III WR, 6-3, 210, San Antonio (Alamo Heights), Texas Still showing interest and being actively recruited
81 Keelon Russell QB, 6-3, 185, Duncanville, Texas Actively being recruited but leaning toward SMU
96  C.J. Nickson DE, 6-5, 227, Weatherford, Texas Re-engaged with OSU with new DL Coach Randolph. Will visit June 8
101 Orogbo Smith DE, 6-4, 220, Houston (Hastings), Texas Showing interest and actively being recruited by Oklahoma State
109 Max Granville OLB, 6-3, 210, Sugar Land (Fort Bend Christian), Texas Trending down and not actively being recruited
126 Elijah Barnes OLB, 6-2, 215, Dallas (Skyline), Texas Trending down and not actively being recruited
155 Jaden Nickens WR, 6-2, 190, Midwest City (Carl Albert), Okla. De-committed from OU but not showing interest
161 Tristan Haynes CB, 6-2, 175, Midwest City (Carl Albert), Okla. Showing interest and actively being recruited by Oklahoma State
173 Jerome Myles WR, 6-3, 200, Draper (Corner Canyon), Utah Trending down and not actively being recruited
186 Elijah Thomas WR, 6-1, 185, Checotah, Okla. Verbally committed to Oklahoma
187 Omarion Robinson DB, 6-0, 190, Little Rock (parkview), Ark. Showing interest and actively being recruited by Oklahoma State
198 Adrian Wilson WR, 6-2, 180, Pflugerville, (Weiss), Texas Trending down and not showing interest in OSU
200 Michael Turner RB, 6-0, 205, North Richland Hills (Richland), Texas Actively being recruited and making an official visit April 12
214 DaSaahn Brame TE, 6-5, 235, Derby, Kan. Trending down and not showing interest in OSU
232 Kamauryn Morgan DE, 6-5, 235, Dallas (South Oak Cliff), Texas Trending down and not showing interest in OSU
234 Kiotti Armstrong TE, 6-5, 248, Jasper, Texas Trending down and not showing interest in OSU
239 Ryan Fodje OL, 6-5, 275, Cypress (Bridgeland), Texas Verbally committed to Oklahoma
243 Grayson Wilson QB, 6-3, 195, North Little Rock (Central Christian), Ark. Verbally committed to Arkansas
262 Rickey Stewart RB, 5-11, 185, Tyler (Chapel Hill), Texas Actively being recruited and making an official visit June 20
283 Mason Posa ILB, 6-3, 216, Albuquerque (LaCueva), N.M. Actively being recruited and making an official visit April 12
291 Adam Schobel QB, 6-5, 204, Clumbus, Texas Verbally committed to Baylor but officially visited April 5

Oklahoma State, like Mike Gundy said, is recruiting the five-star and four-star talent. There are some five and four-star prospects beyond the ESPN 300. No service is perfect as there are a lot of prospect to evaluate. A good example is the April 5 commitment of Addison (Trinity Christian), Texas offensive tackle Jaylan Beckley. Beckley is four-star prospect in our eyes. The offers he had add up to that, but the video is the proof along with the athletic talents. 

Our friend at Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Greg Powers has him as a top 10 offensive line prospect in Texas.

Beauty is still in the ey of the beholder in recruiting and for Oklahoma State the top recruits are the ones that master strength and conditioning coach Rob Glass and his staff can develop into top college talent.

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New ESPN 300 is Out and Like Mike Gundy Said: OSU Does Offer the Top Tier

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PORTERTXPOKE
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Gundy is obviously making offers to ESPN's top 300 but there are not many showing a lot of interest in OSU!!!!!!!!!1
backphil
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Robert, how should we define this classification . . . "Offered, but not actively being recruited" . . . compared say to this one . . . "Trending down and not actively being recruited?"

Thanks buddy.
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CanadianCowboy
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The "trending down..." had me puzzled, too. Trending down in ranking? In O-State recruiting interest? In the prospect's interest?
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