A well-recognized face is about to return to Norman.
After a year-long stint in South Carolina with a number of different Sooners, Austin Stogner is headed again to Oklahoma.
The senior tight finish performed a season within the SEC with former OU assistant coach Shane Beamer (now the Gamecocks’ head coach) and quarterback Spencer Rattler after spending his first three faculty seasons with the Sooners.
Stogner introduced his transfer Thursday on Twitter.
This season with the Gamecocks, the 6-foot-5, 249-pound caught 20 passes for 210 yards and one landing. After being recognized as an enormous switch portal addition for Beamer, Stogner’s manufacturing didn’t attain anticipated ranges.
Stogner’s finest season of his profession got here in 2020, when he recorded 422 yards and three touchdowns on 26 catches for Oklahoma. Although he flexes out lots, Stogner’s measurement and physicality can be helpful as an inline blocking tight finish.
Senior Brayden Willis’ commencement this offseason will open the door for extra reps on the tight finish spot.
While the Sooners have present freshmen Jason Llewellyn and Kaden Helms, returning a seasoned veteran to the room will solely add competitors and expertise.
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In Stogner’s different two seasons at OU, he caught seven passes for 66 yards and two touchdowns as a freshman, and 14 passes for 166 yards and three touchdowns as a junior.
In his faculty profession, Stogner has 67 receptions for 864 yards (12.9 yards per catch) and has scored 9 TDs.
His finest video games have been in 2020, when he caught 5 passes for 83 yards in opposition to Kansas State, 5 passes for 74 yards in opposition to Iowa State and 6 passes for 56 yards and a TD in opposition to Texas in successive video games. He adopted these up with three catches for 77 yards and a rating in opposition to Texas Tech, then had three catches for 75 yards and a TD in opposition to Kansas.
In that KU recreation, Stogner took a tough hit to the thigh on his ultimate catch and suffered a deep bruise. The bruise developed into a strep infection, which Stogner said nearly killed him. He misplaced 35 kilos and was in intensive care earlier than he recovered and returned to play within the Cotton Bowl to finish the 2020 season.
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