Rodney Anderson took a kickoff Saturday in OU’s Red-White Game, and soon enough was waltzing into the end zone, having completed a 90something-yard return. The crowd of 43,000 roared. It was bogus, of course. The kick return team wasn’t supposed to tackle, and that unit certainly wasn’t supposed to tackle Anderson, who is hands-off this spring as he recovers from a neck injury that cost him last season.
But it reminded us that OU is missing both its prime kickoff returner, Joe Mixon, and its prime punt returner, Dede Westbrook, from last season. Each had a touchdown return last season, the first time since 2012 that the Sooners had at least one of each in the same season.