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Via their official Twitter account, OU Football announced Saturday morning that quarterback Trevor Knight has been officially cleared and was practicing with the team as they start their bowl prep.
BREAKING – QB @trevor_knight9 cleared to practice & play! Prepping for @RussellAthBowl w teammates now! pic.twitter.com/Fyd0MIpRtg
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) December 13, 2014
It’s certainly welcome news for the team, but even more so for Knight whose career some had prematurely speculated could have been in jeopardy. Now whether this means he’ll be the starter against Clemson there really is no way to know. Odds are, barring any potential setbacks and/or re-aggravation of the injury, that could certainly be the case. But the coaches will clearly use these next couple weeks to determine if Knight will be ready to go and if he gives them the best chance to win.
Regardless of whether or not he’s under center come Dec. 29th, it’s just good to see him back out there healthy and with his teammates.
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I’m on here, before all the sarcasm starts, to say: good for you TK and best of luck.
Bravo!
Good kid and wish him the best.
Thats grew news. Glad to have him back and healthy.
What happens if Knight starts and plays like he did in the Sugar Bowl again? The last thing we need is over hype for next season AGAIN. For him and the team. I still think Mayfield will win the job anyways.
You’re asking about over hype…yet you brought up mayfield. I don’t think it’s fair to expect mayfield to be the next heisman qb at ou.
No. But Knight has what 14 TD passes and 13 INTERCEPTIONS!. OU deserves better than that. Mayfield threw the ball around in his stint at TT. Knight. Mayfield Hansen and Thomas we need the most consistent passer.
Mayfield had 12 tds and 9 int’s. Not a whole lot better and was in a very pass happy offense. And most know that mayfield played during the soft part of techs schedule last year.
I know Zach, this is true. But OU has better weapons and a running game. Mayfield was a freshman.
Hype is good, seeing that preseason rankings affect the committee. How can it not? It’ll be nice if OU can play well and get a victory. Would you rather be ranked top 15 or 25th or lower going in? As for the QB position, may the best man win. Stoops talks about Thomas passing so well, Knight is 13 int’s, Hansen we don’t know about. I think Mayfield has something they call the “it” factor. But stop with the freakin turnovers.
Knights actual statistics for this year: 14 TD passes, 9 INTs, 134.3 efficiency rating, completion percentage of 58.1%, and 2,197 yards passing. 66 rushes for 405 yards or 6.1 YPC and 5 rushing TDs.
Thanks for that. So, 23 TD’s 14 Interceptions over a two year career. Like I said whoever plays needs to stop with int and fumbles.
I don’t think it will matter. If, during the offseason, it is evident that Mayfield throws a better, more accurate ball, and that he reads the defenses well enough, I think he starts next year. If not, it’ll likely be TK again.
You think a stellar OU QB performance in the bowl game versus Clemson is a bad thing…? “Hype”, otherwise known as optimism, helps recruiting… I’m not sure I get your point…
This is good news I hope there’s is a very low chance of re-aggravating that injury. I would like to see him play but not at the expense of possibly becoming paralyzed.
Let’s go TK. Don’t rush the passes, and please know where the LB is! Glad to have you back.
This is huge. Finally, we get some good news.
I took the fact that Petty graduates and Hill of OSU got kicked off the team as good news.
Hey look JH is coaching up the QB’s!
Glad that TK has been cleared to play. My question is will he be given the green light by coaches to run. Waiting now for the status of Perine, Shep and Shead.
I hope they learned their lesson. You either let the man play using all his abilities and let the chips fall or play scared which leads to injuries. Knight was injured twice this year, once on a late hit the refs missed and by a pile on by Baylor which was also questionable. Flukes?
The Baylor hit was a cheap shot that should’ve resulted in the player being ejected. Agree with you if TK cannot run the entire offense, he shouldn’t play.
I tend to agree but, using that logic, Heupel shouldn’t coach.
Point was if he can’t run (take hits), he shouldn’t be on the field. IMO Josh has been running on a small playbook all year – for various reasons.
Good news hope Shep gets healthy too!
Good news for TK but i am not certain they will turn him loose and let him run, and clemson will know that too.
Who cares? Feed Perine, and throw the ball around some. We can win doing that. Don’t have to have a QB run game.
That’s right. Play action works in the NFL. Bell and one WR just have to be better than the coverage. The question is do we have a wr that can beat coverage other than Shepard? Where’s Mead? Smallwood? Neal, Quick, we’re calling these guys out to get separation, make a difference. These bowl games have tons of viewers and scouts from the league. Let’s go OU.
I don’t think the discussion of his injury being career ending was premature at all. Most of can read pretty well and the injury as it was diagnosed tends to be career ending.
If he is cleared to play then I cannot imagine him not starting against Clemson. However, I can see the QB run game evaporating except for the scramble like plays we saw earlier in the year.
$20 says he has another monster bowl game, giving us more unreasonable hope for the future.
He is still only a sophomore. Who is to say he won’t be better by next year?
a lot of guys on here can see the future. its contagious
I saw very little progress from year one until now—–what evidence do we have to make us think otherwise?
I don’t know? The Sugar Bowl?
Since the fluke performance at the Sugar Bowl what have we seen? Not much.
About the only consistent thing we have seen about TK is being prone to injury.
Perhaps it is the lack of a second WR who is able to get open consistently. Look, Knight used Bester and Shepard in the Sugar bowl. This year Neal didn’t get clear often enough.
It’s not unreasonable even if they get beat. Look, the offense averaged 36 points a game. The reason that translated to four losses was because of the defense!
The pick 6 at TCU cost us that game
Not doubt that turned the game. However, the defense allowed 30 points. Unacceptable. The worst thing was even with that int, TCU turned it over two more times and we couldn’t do anything with those turnovers. I say that loss was a team effort.
Awesome news. So happy for the young man and his health.
So glad he still has a shot at doing what he loves. That injury sounded too scary; I look forward to seeing him perform well against a tough Clemson defense.
The best news here is Trevor has been cleared to get back on the field with his teammates. Even if he isn’t greenlighted to run, he has looked more capable as a passer than Cody this year. Cody as a passer seems to have regressed since replacing Trevor, which has concerned me almost as much as TK’s lack of real improvement. I hope this bowl practice time helps us decide if our future signal cxaller is already on the roster, or if we feel we need to press hard for Virgil or Murray.
Don’t sleep on Justice Hansen. He may very well beat out all of them for the starting job next year.
Not a chance!
I’m not as sold on Mayfield as many are.
No one has seen enough to be convinced about Mayfield. I think he gets their interest simply because of TKs unsatisfactory play.
I’m not sold on ANY OU QB on the roster but of the ones we have, I’ve been most impressed by what I’ve seen out of Mayfield in Spring and last year at TTU.
What has Knight shown us up to this point to make us think he’ll be anything more than average?
Agree SJ, on Justice Hansen.
Hansen had a lot of offers so there must be some potential there.
Not sure this is a good thing, he better not be the #1 QB going into the Spring and open to the QB’s on campus.
i’m thinking the health of a human being is a good thing
I am happy he is fine but thinking from a football stand point, not sure he is the right guy at this point
I’ve said this multiple times, the scheme should work around the strengths of a QB. Successful coaches do this however JH has had a difficult time figuring out what he wants in an offense. This makes QB a difficult position at OU at the moment.
yeah. hopefully he can develop into what we all hope he can be. a bad qb doesn’t torch anyone like he did last yr against bama. so you know what he can do, now its just getting the brain farts outta there or at least making em few and far between. take the reigns off and let him go. unless someone leaves we should have a ton of depth. no fear=less chance of an injury and more confidence in his own athletic ability
Of course he was throwing to Saunders, Bester and Shep that game …. Sigh… Not Neal, shep and the other guy with stone hands.
yeah. what about dgb, shep and quick? that sounds awesome. think this offense could put up ~50 pts a game if dgb stays. that’s incredible. 50 pts a game. 9th ranked rushing attack, hopefully the line finds the answers it’ll need. 11th most in ppg at ~39 a game. that wouldn’t go down. its exciting. turn knight loose cause you shouldn’t lose anybody and you add hansen. lots of depth
I trust in Bedenbaugh, now getting DGB to stay might be the more tricky part, hopefully Bob pulls all stops to make that happen, he knows what we can have if that works.
Regardless of whether he was our starting QB or third string long snapper, I am just glad he seems to have healed properly. I know it is easy for me to forget, but football is still just a game. I’m glad to have you back, Trevor! BOOMER!!!
well said brother. SOONER!
SOONER!! I am excited for TK and OU FB!
I would feel better if he was under center for the bowl game. I just do not trust CT. I think CT will become a good QB but I also think the kid is too nervous out there on the field.
They said he looked calm. But he sure had trouble completing passes.
Until Thomas refines his throwing motion, he’ll continue to have problems. Passes look like their going from RF into 2nd base… low.
Very pleased to see this about TK. Hoping for the best for him.