Temperature check: Reevaluating five returning Oklahoma players who were set for significant roles.
Checking up on five returning Oklahoma Sooners who entered the spring game ready to take on larger responsibilities in 2024.
Oklahoma’s spring practices ended with the Red and White spring game last Saturday.
Now that those 15 crucial practices are behind us and the Sooners have officially entered the offseason, it’s time to review some pre-spring storylines for Team 130 and check in on certain guys we had our eye on heading into the spring.
Back on March 1, Sooners Illustrated looked at five returning players that could play bigger roles for Oklahoma in 2024, the team’s first season in the SEC. These are players who were not stars or regular starters for the Sooners last season, but who factored into the mix in 2023 and had the opportunity to play larger roles this autumn.
So, let’s check in on the five candidates we identified a couple weeks before spring practice began for the Sooners…
Troy Everett was expected to take over as the Sooners’ starting centre in 2024 after backing up Andrew Raym last season and started four games along the offensive line (three at guard and one at centre in the Alamo Bowl). That was the case for the first half of spring practices, with the former Appalachian State transfer handling first-team centre responsibilities until he suffered a knee injury during a Sooners session on March 27. Everett was promptly ruled out for the rest of the spring, and a week later he underwent right knee surgery.
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