If the Sooners wanted to go away from a trend they’ve had in the transfer portal, they’ll have plenty of options available
The Sooners are home-grown in the cornerback room.
The Oklahoma Sooners have a pretty good cornerback room. They’re homegrown, and don’t really go to the transfer portal to get their players for that position group. However, the Sooners will be very young in that room in 2026. Courtland Guillory, your true freshman from this last season, will be your best player as a sophomore. Eli Bowen will be a junior, but he missed time last year due to injuries and played through them the year before.
After those two guys, it’s really unknown what the corner back room will be. Devon Jordan and Jacobe Johnson are expected to be back, but we don’t know if that’s really what will happen – not in this crazy era of challenge football. Not to mention, those two haven’t played a ton of football.
It wouldn’t hurt for the Sooners to get someone who can be elite but also be cheap. Or it wouldn’t hurt for them to get an experienced player for depth and to bring in some competition. Do I think OU will do that? No. However, if they wanted to go against that trend, there are plenty of options.
Good options for the Sooners to target at the CB position in the transfer portal
Mark “MJ” Cannon, Bowling Green
Cannon could be that veteran presence the Sooners are looking for in that room, if they indeed go the route of the transfer portal. Cannon has one year of eligibility left and could spend that last season making the jump from the MAC to the SEC. And, before you read that sentence out loud, yes, he’s good enough to make that jump. This season, he totaled 57 tackles, two sacks, one pass deflection, and two interceptions. Cannon could be a great rotational CB in this room.
Kensley Louidor-Faustin, Auburn Tigers
This season, the Auburn Tigers defensive back, as he’s played cornerback and nickel, has totaled 20 tackles, with 14 of them being solo tackles, one interception, three pass breakups, one sack, and three tackles for loss. He can do it all, and he fills up the stat sheet. Louidor-Faustin has length and speed; however, he is a bit smaller. That doesn’t matter in this defense, as Guillory is the perfect example of playing smart and playing hard will get you and the defense wherever it needs to be. He’ll have 2 years of eligibility left.
Zion Frink, Old Dominion
Frink is a guy that maybe not many casual fans know about, but he has the physicality and speed to play at the SEC level. With two years of eligibility left, he is going to be a guy that Power Four schools really want. Last season, Frink finished with 60 tackles, seven pass breakups, one interception, and one tackle for loss. Frink started all 13 games, totaling 600-plus snaps for Old Dominion in 2025.
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