The Football Brainiacs

– Roshauud Paul: This week the Sooners offered 2017 ATH Roshauud Paul (Bremond, TX), who tells TFB the OU coaches are looking at him as an inside wide receiver. Paul also mentioned that he’s actually visited Oklahoma before. He was at the 2015 season opener against Akron.

Now that he has an offer, Paul said he wants to make a return trip to Norman at some point this spring but has yet to set a date. – (Super K)

– New Running Back Offer: Last night Oklahoma extended an offer to 2017 running back Kennedy Brooks out of Mansfield, TX.

– Player Note | Joe Mixon: A quick note on Joe Mixon, I’ve been told that he is, to my surprise, a little heavier right now than where he played at most of last season. Which, to me, sounded like a bad thing as I thought watching him last year he could stand to cut something like 5-10 pounds and be a little quicker.

But apparently despite being heavier, he’s actually leaner now than he was last season. In fact, I was told he’s actually put up better times during workouts as compared to this time last year. Which based on what I’ve been told is a bit of a common theme among the team as a whole, as a number of guys are already in better shape going into the spring than they were at this same point last year. – (Super K)

– Defensive Line Coaching Search: The only additional note to add since Wednesday’s update was that I can confirm there has been discussion between the OU staff and Michigan State defensive line coach, Ron Burton.

Again, the Sooners are speaking to multiple candidates about the defensive line position. And while I cannot officially confirm who all those people are, I have good reason to believe one of them likely is Penn State defensive line coach, Sean Spencer. I say that only because he was someone Oklahoma spoke to last year prior to hiring Diron Reynolds. In fact, one source confirmed Spencer actually interviewed for the job a year ago.

Although I continue to hear that Burton is their top target, I’d be pretty surprised if they don’t at least bring in a couple guys to go through the interview process. Both because it’s the smart thing to do, weighing multiple options, and because there is certainly no guarantee they’d be able to snag Burton away from Michigan State. – (Super K & Brandon)

– UPDATE (4:52 pm): Okay, so if you’ve been hanging out at all in the comments today or listening to OKC radio earlier you may already be aware of the comments Dusty Dvoracek made regarding a potential hire for OU’s vacant defensive line coach position. If you’re not already familiar, Dvoracek mentioned there was a chance a hire could be announced as soon as tomorrow (Friday) or possibly this coming weekend.

Now that would lend one to believe Bob Stoops & co. have identified their man for the job. Perhaps even interviewed and/or extended an offer to said candidate. We cannot confirm whether or not that is the case, nor will we speculate as to whether or nor a hire has been made. We are simply deferring to Dvoracek, who in the OKC market has arguably as many ties to the OU program, obviously being a prominent former player, as anyone. So if he’s floating the possibility of something potentially coming down the pike, then it stands to reason the guy probably knows what he’s talking about.

Again, as tempting as it might we’re going to resist the urge to speculate as to who it might be. We can, however, pass along that after hearing Dvoracek’s comments TFB reached out to a number of sources working to confirm a name. And while we’re still waiting to hear back from several people, we did receive word from one source close to the Vanderbilt program. As recently named defensive line coach, and former Sooners QC coach & defensive end, C.J. Ah You was a name many people had thrown out as a possible candidate for the OU job. However, our Vanderbilt source said based on what they know at this time, there has been no indication given that Ah You is going anywhere.

Know that we are chasing this hard right now and when/if we can bring you any more information on things, we will make our absolute best effort to do so as quickly as possible. But as of right now, you know what we know.