KOTV Channel 6 Top HS Player Countdown Has Lots of Oklahoma State Flavor - Now Jones

STILLWATER – Jenks running back Kaydin Jones is No. 6 on the KOTV Channel 6 Top 10 High School Football Players in Oklahoma series that they are doing. It has been a little bit of an Oklahoma State floavor so far. Bixby’s third of the ultra-talented Presley brothers in Braeden was the No. 9 entry on the list. Then the past two nights Bixby’s Kaeden Penny and Fort Gibson’s Cooper Hackett, two juniors this season on the offensive line were featured. Both Penny and Hackett are four-or-five-star prospects in the 2027 class. 

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Jones is immensely gifted.

Jones was a four-star, but after he committed to Oklahoma State there was another of those mysterious recruiting ranking drops. C’mon, the 5-11, 185 pound two-sports star ran for 1,498-yards and 17 touchdowns last season and had two 200-yard plus games. He has 2,778-yards in his career and is already No. 11 on the Jenks career list. As a freshman, Jones was at Broken Arrow and ran for 1,264 yards.

“I’’ll be walking around the streets in Jenks and people will say, “oh that’s Kaydin Jones of OSU,’ Jones said of the result, at least the one he feels on a daily basis fromhis decision. “It was probably one of the toughest decisions that I’ve ever made in my life. One of the lessons that I’ve learned is follow your heart. That is what I felt and that is why I picked OSU.”

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Kaydin (right) and his dad, Kejuan, on Oklahoma State official visit.

His dad, Kejuan, was a standout back at Oklahoma that had over 2,300-yards and 37 touchdowns, and the Sooners offered, even made his final list. It was Oklahoma State that won out over a star-studded list of schools that offered. The list included Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisville and Tennessee as well as Alabama, Arizona State, Arkansas, Baylor, Colorado, Houston, Kansas State, Kentucky, Michigan State, Mississippi, Oregon, SMU, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Utah, Vanderbilt and Wisconsin.

Recruiting over, Kaydin is focused on this season and goals he has for the Trojans and for himself. 

“I would like to have a 2,000-yard season (rushing). I haven’t had one yet,” Jones started. “The gold ball is obviously the ultimate goal. Anything I can do to help us get that is a goal.”

“He has done an absolute tremendous job in leadership this offseason and summer,” Jenks head coach Adam Gaylor told Channel 6. 

Oklahoma State fans will have their eyes on Jenks and Jones all season long.