Want the Feel of Running Routes with Brennan Presley, OSU Releases Video
STILLWATER – Back on Saturday, April 24 inside Boone Pickens Stadium we all had a chance to see Oklahoma State wrap up spring football practice with a realistic spring game. The first one in several years. Of course, spring football was interrupted after three days during the pandemic of 2020. Fans enjoyed seeing quarterbacks Spencer Sanders and Shane Illingworth play, the young receivers that stuck out, new transfer running back Jaylen Warren cleanly hurdle a defender, and all of the returning Oklahoma State defenders that played. Now, several weeks later they have a chance to see what slot receiver Brennan Presley saw that Saturday and a little of what safety Tre Sterling saw in the second half of the game. Honestly, Sterling didn’t play a lot in the second half, but there is some on the field and on the sideline.
Presley and Sterling were outfitted on their helmets with a “Go Pro” camera. The kind of cameras that umpires in baseball or officials in football sometimes were. The kind of cameras that are attached somewhere in coach’s booths so the broadcast can show the reactions of assistant coaches.
This was taking it a step further for sure.
“Honestly, they took it and put it on my helmet and one of the coaches took it off and said it was going to get messed up and stuff,” Presley explained of ending up with the mini camera on his helmet. “They came back and put it on and said they wanted it on during the team session. I thought it’s not my camera so … Even when I got hit they (opposing defenders) were saying, ‘break the Go Pro.’ They were aiming for it. I wasn’t really conscious about it, if it would have broke, it would have broke.”
We were speaking to Presley about it right after the game. Now, that we’ve seen the video which you can view right here, and Presley has seen it too he knows what it looks like.
“I’m really anxious (to see the video). It will be really cool to see what I saw,” Pressley said of seeing the video. “I’m always excited to see what happens.”
He should be. Presley’s time with the camera on his helmet was better spent as you get to see his running of the route, the ball coming at him
“What if somebody comes to tackle you?” That question was asked by now Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Tylan Wallace. Presley replied, “It is going to break, it is going to break.”
It didn’t and you get to see Presley field a punt, run routes and catch passes from Spencer Sanders. Those passes had some real zip on them. You even experience Presley being tackled, but the Go Pro survived. You even see head coach Mike Gundy congratulate Presley coming off the field.
It was more social with Sterling as the offense went to the other side of the field. Sterling did suggest the fans get their bicep curls in because he said they will be doing the “wave” all season long.
Overall, good stuff and Presley is as fun to watch on a Go Pro, maybe more fun than he is with the standard football view.