Oklahoma Sooners lose out on a family legacy recruit in the 2026 class to Big 12 pipeline, putting spotlight on weak position room
It's been a bit of a cold week for the Oklahoma Sooners on the recruiting front. A week after pulling in elite quarterback Bowe Bentley, the Sooners have stumbled here this week, losing out on recruits like Tajh Overton, Danny Odem, and Dallas Dickerson. While many of these recruits weren't priority targets, they would have […]
It's been a bit of a cold week for the Oklahoma Sooners on the recruiting front. A week after pulling in elite quarterback Bowe Bentley, the Sooners have stumbled here this week, losing out on recruits like Tajh Overton, Danny Odem, and Dallas Dickerson. While many of these recruits weren't priority targets, they would have helped boost the Sooners' class of 2026.
They missed on another target tonight, this time losing out on a family legacy offer. The brother of former Sooners standout defender Tony Jefferson, Josiah, has committed to Utah over the Sooners.
Josiah, a 2026 WR/TE recruit, is a JUCO product out of Southwestern University.
While this isn't necessarily a huge loss for the Sooners, as they already have one tight end committed and are trending for another one, it's just more ammunition for people to point to in a week of Oklahoma seemingly missing on recruits right and left.
The Sooners typically don't tend to target JUCO products under Brent Venables, and it's clear with all the other players they are pursuing that Jefferson wasn't necessarily their top target.
Utah evidently made more sense for his recruitment, given that he's significantly more likely to play more there and likely received a better offer from the Utes. Utah has also been a much better pipeline into the NFL for tight ends than Oklahoma in recent memory, with players like Dalton Kincaid.
However, this does point to a worrying trend at tight end, as Oklahoma has repeatedly missed out on targets here under position coach Joe Jon Finley. Losing out on a recruit that should have been an easy layup has been a frequent problem at tight end, and Jefferson is just the latest mark in a long series of poor recruiting for Finley.
Given how the state of the tight end room has gotten worse over time under him, I think it's more than fair to continue to wonder about his future with the Sooners.
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