Boom News! | 2020 OL Aaryn Parks Commits to Oklahoma!
Posted on: September 19, 2019
The Sooners added another huge piece to their #20Deep class as 2020 offensive lineman Aaryn Parks has committed to Oklahoma!
Parks is a national recruit out of Fort Washington, MD who holds offers from a ton of major programs and he was committed to Penn State at one point.
Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley tipped you all off about his verbal commitment when he sent out his second set of eyes on September 2nd following Parks’ official visit to Norman for the season-opening game against Houston.
The addition of Parks gives the Sooners their fifth offensive line commit to what is perhaps the nations best OL group this cycle.
Parks joins the recently committed Sooner, Anton Harison, in heading west from Maryland to become a Sooner.
Andrew Raym, Nate Anderson, and Noah Nelson round out the deep and talented position group for Sooners offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh.
Our guy JY had this to say about what the Sooners are getting with Parks’ commitment:
Aaryn Parks: Somewhere between 6’4” and 6’5” and 300-320. Very very athletic for such a big man and will play tackle for the Sooners. Natural feet and athleticism make him look very comfortable picking up twists, stunts, and blitzes.
Very well-coached and further along with technique development than a lot of players his age.
Is able to lock onto defenders and finish them off with authority. I love how he has mastered slamming guys into the ground.
Not a ton of film on him in pass protection, but you can tell he has been taught well with his hand placement on running plays.
He does a very nice job staying under control, controlling the defender and then redirecting and getting vertical movement.
He will need to work on keeping his hips to the side of the play as times he swung his hips outside on an inside run.
More talented defenders would beat him when that happens and he could get whistled for a hold.
One of the most highly-rated tackles left out there and you can definitely see why. He was committed to Penn State for a while and Bedenbaugh swooped in for the kill. Tremendous player.
This is one hell of an offensive line class.
