The Football Brainiacs

– Kenneth Murray: As a reminder, 2017 LB Kenneth Murray (Missouri City, TX) is set to announce his decision tomorrow morning around 8:30 am (CT). He is deciding between OU, TAMU and Texas.

Everyone we’ve spoken with believes OU will be the pick, but we’ll all find out for sure on Wednesday. – (Super K)

– Grant Blankenship: Yesterday, TFB broke the news that former Notre Dame defensive end Grant Blankenship had transferred to Oklahoma. Blankenship had some grade issues while in South Bend, which led to his being suspended from the team and ultimately prompted him to seek a transfer.

Now in Norman, TFB has learned Blankenship is not currently on scholarship — though will have an opportunity to eventually earn one — and will use the coming 2016 season to redshirt. After which he will have two remaining years of eligibility starting with the 2017 season.

– Team Note | Amani Bledsoe: Some of you have been asking for an update on true freshman defensive end, Amani Bledsoe. So we checked with a couple sources regarding Bledsoe’s progress and whether he could expect to see the field this season.

Bledsoe is apparently running some with the first team defense (as valued TFB commenter KJ also mentioned in the comments), however don’t misunderstand that to mean he’s a starter by any stretch. Bledsoe is still behind guys like Matt Dimon, DJ Ward, Charles Walker, Austin Roberts & Neville Gallimore, but the coaches have been rotating him in as opposed to his reps coming primarily with the practice squad.

One source told TFB that Bledsoe is “pretty strong and could possibly play this year,” while also adding that the true freshman is “instinctive” as well. Apparently on the day our source saw him, Bledsoe was consistently getting the better of some of the back-up RTs.

The impression we came away with after talking to people is that Bledsoe could very well see the field in 2016, but probably isn’t going to move ahead of the guys in front of him on the depth chart. Which is certainly no knock on Bledsoe, because it’s incredibly impressive as a true freshman he’d even be in the position to play at all on this defense. If nothing else it would bode well for his future within the program in 2017 and beyond. – (Super K)

– Peer Takes on Creed Humphrey: I (JY) stay in regular contact with Alabama offensive line commit, Alex Leatherwood and LSU offensive line commit, Sahdiq Charles. Both of whom  competed in the New Orleans Nike regional Opening event with now OU commit, Creed Humphrey. So I asked them for a little feedback, as fellow offensive linemen, on what they saw from Humphrey.

Both Charles & Leatherwood had praise for Humphrey and specifically commented on how well the OU commit uses his feet, while noting that he has great physicality and is strong at the point of attack. Nothing they said will surprise anyone who has seen Humphrey on film, but it’s always good to hear it from guys of their caliber who have lined up next to him and gone up against the same level of competition. – (JY)