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OU football journal: Sterling Shepard was initially coveted as a defensive back

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops has known Sterling Shepard since Shepard was a young boy.

As Shepard gets ready to play his final home game as a Sooner on Saturday vs. TCU (7 p.m., ABC), Stoops looked back on the first time he started viewing Shepard as a recruit instead of just checking up on how Derrick Shepard's son was doing.

“I felt it before everybody,” Stoops said. “Of course, and maybe I've got better judgment than everybody else but I wanted my coaches to come to the this conclusion that this is a guy we've gotta have.