The Football Brainiacs

Image of Van Jefferson via scout.com

Ryan Newsome: Just had to start the Open Post with this great picture from last night. Newsome narrowed his list to two (Texas and UCLA), but apparently the dynamic duo of  Cale Gundy and Lincoln Riley are still coming after him anyway.

Newsome tweeted out the picture below along with “Only one! #Boomer.”

Van Jefferson, Coach Shawn Jefferson & the WR Coaching Position: As we noted in yesterday’s open post, it’s looking likely that Van Jefferson will end up a Sooner. As many of you also know, Van’s father is a coach. Shawn Jefferson, a 13-year NFL vet as a player, is currently the wide receivers coach for the Tennessee Titans. At one time, he was actually our very own Ryan Broyles’ coach in Detroit.

Many of you may recall that Van had told us previously if his father was offered the WR coach job, he’d commit to OU. There does seem to be at least interest in the elder Jefferson, and we surmise that it may have even gone further than just mere interest at this point.

We want to check with a few more sources before we get you too excited, but it does seem there is, at the very least, real interest in Shawn Jefferson as a wide receivers coach at OU.

Darreyl Patterson, Nate Dalton & Kareem Orr: With Nate Dalton and Kareem Orr both eliminating the Sooners from consideration shortly after Antoine Stepehens committed, many of you are probably wondering what’s the deal? We’ve asked around and it seems right now there has been some re-evaluation of the numbers, and OU may in fact only take one more DB in this 2015 class. At this point, however, we aren’t sure if that will be Darreyl Patterson or not.

Mike Hughes: Barely after the announcement was made name Lincoln Riley OU’s new offensive coordinator, his Twitter was immediately being stalked to see who he would follow as a sign to who he would be pursuing with NSD looming.

One of the first prospects he followed was Mike Hughes, a 5’10 and 179 pound athlete out of New Berns, NC. Hughes is currently a UNC commit and was supposed to be an early enrollee. There are reports that he has not enrolled just yet, but we have not been able to confirm why that may be at this time.

Our guy Alex reached out to him and can confirm that Riley, who was recruiting Hughes to ECU, has been in touch with him since coming to OU. In fact, the two spoke as recently as Monday night and have spoken regularly since Lincoln came to Norman.

At this point there has not been clarification on if an offer has happened or not, but after talking with Hughes we can tell you the Sooners can be a player here if they clarify the offer situation.

UPDATE (9:49 am): Got word out of Dallas that coach Jerry Montgomery is in town to see 2015 defensive line target, Darrion Daniels.

UPDATE (12:35 pm): We have confirmed with Justin Reid that OU had planned on doing an in-home visit this week, but after some discussion between the two parties the visit has been cancelled. We feel comfortable saying Reid and OU have pretty much parted ways at this point. Reid did share with TFB that he has narrowed his list further and is now only considering Stanford, LSU & Notre Dame.

UPDATE (4:15 pm): OU coaches checking in with 2015 OL commit, Cody Ford.

UPDATE (9:43 pm): Perfect timing…not.

#Oklahoma offers 2015 #TexasA&M commit OLB Dwaine Thomas (Hahnville HS, LA) @_dweezy15 @VarsityPreps @SouthRecruit1 #BoomerSooner

— Demetric D. Warren (@DemetricDWarren) January 22, 2015