Drew Mestemaker Eager to Get the 2026 Season Underway in Stillwater
STILLWATER – In a breath of freshness, Oklahoma State made four players available to the media a few weeks ahead of the start of spring football. Defensive returners Jaleel Johnson and Malik Charles and newcomers Drew Mestemaker and Caleb Hawkins.
Obviously, all four guys are set to make an impact this upcoming fall, but the main event Thursday morning was Mestemaker, one of the best quarterback transfers in the country.
For me, the biggest question that I wanted answered was actually the second question asked: was there ever a doubt you were going to follow Eric Morris to Stillwater?
“I knew the whole time Coach Morris was going to be a huge factor and wherever he went, I was probably going to be where I was going,” Mestemaker said. “I was learning new things without myself on social media every day that I was getting this much money from this school and this much money from this school. It was all stuff that I wasn't even thinking about. I told Coach Morris, ‘Coach, I want to still see what's out there.’ Because I never got recruited out of high school. I just wanted to see what's out there. But it was a pretty quick recruiting process, and I made my decision pretty quickly.”
I really don’t think there was ever a doubt Mestemaker was going to follow Morris. He’s the coach who believed in him and gave him a shot. He’s had a ton of success in Morris’ system; the same system that’s now in Stillwater. His quarterback coach Sean Brophy is also on staff in Stillwater so there’s even more familiarity in the quarterback room. It was interesting to hear him talk about wanting to go through the recruiting process that he didn’t get to go through coming out of high school.
Another aspect many people wanted to know about is how he’s headed into the upcoming season with the Cowboys having not won a Big 12 game since the fall of 2023.
“I think whenever you're your biggest critic and you set those high goals for yourself, it's nothing different than what you see from the outside and coach Morris has said it in here,” Mestemaker said. “The only thing that matters to this team is winning football games, whatever it takes. If we have to win 3-0, if we have to score 70 points, it doesn't matter to us, as long as we have more points at the end of the game.”
We’ll get our first glimpse of Mestemaker slinging the rock for Oklahoma State when the Cowboys start spring football on March 9.
