Sooners offer 2023 LSU commit Ryan Yaites

The Oklahoma Sooners missed on safety Tyler Turner, who dedicated to Oregon this week, however that won’t sluggish Brent Venables and his defensive workers. Leaving nothing to likelihood, the Sooners provided four-star defensive again Ryan Yaites from Denton Guyer High School in Texas.

Yaites has been committed to LSU since the middle of April, however that won’t hold Venables and Brandon Hall from pursuing the Texas native. Another factor to notice is Yaites is the highschool teammate of Oklahoma’s five-star quarterback commit Jackson Arnold.

ESPN, the 247Sports composite, and the On3’s consensus think about Yaites a four-star defensive again prospect. He ranks as one of many high 100 gamers in talent-rich Texas.

Yaites is a flexible defensive again prospect that lined up primarily as an outdoor cornerback for Guyer. He’s a bump-and-run nook that does a terrific job utilizing his size and athleticism to problem receivers on the catch level. Even when the WR has made the catch, Yaites exhibits a powerful capability to tear the ball out to trigger the incompletion. He’s an excellent tackler who persistently wraps up and drives the ball provider to the bottom. In the run or display screen recreation, he exhibits nice self-discipline to set the sting and never let the ball provider get to the boundary. Great eye self-discipline and talent to learn the play permits him to go from cowl participant to run defender shortly, which helps him make performs within the run recreation.

If the Sooners had been in a position to flip Yaites from LSU, it might be an enormous win and one other unbelievable defensive prospect so as to add to Kaleb Spencer, Erik McCarty and Kade McIntyre.

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