Almost one-third of the players on Oklahoma football roster this season were not on the roster a year ago.
It used to be that the high school recruiting process was the prime talent pipeline for replenishing the natural matriculation of a college football roster. New transfer rules and Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) have changed all that.
The Sooners signed 26 scholarship players in the 2023 recruiting class, and then added 16 more through the transfer portal. Brent Venables has said that he isn’t a huge advocate of the transfer portal as a means of feeding and building sustained success on the field.