The Football Brainiacs

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– Ondario Robinson: TFB caught up with 2017 DE Ondario Robinson (Hutto, TX), who received an offer from Oklahoma back in the spring when Calvin Thibodeaux stopped by for a visit, earlier in the week. Robinson released a Top 7 back in mid-May that included: OU, Arizona State, Georgia, Houston, Indiana, Missouri & New Mexico.

Since then, however, Robinson has received offers from the likes of Texas and Texas A&M. In fact, he recently made trips to both schools. As to our conversation, Robinson said, referring to his original Top 7, “those were just my top schools with those offers, but as I said they could change with new offers.”

One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is his interest in Oklahoma. Robinson told TFB he he plans on making the trip to Norman at some point, but it sounds like he won’t be able to make it on the date he had originally planned, “I’m not going to be able to make it up there (to Norman) for the event on the 29th because I have a family reunion. But I talked to my mom about going up there and she told me to map it out and see what we should do.”

The event Robinson is referring to is apparently some kind of new recruiting event the OU staff will hold at the end of July. I’ve been told they are still working through some different ideas, but it’s just another sign the staff is dead set on landing top notch recruits.

I do expect Robinson to make it to Norman sometime before the fall as he let TFB know he plans on announcing his decision at half time of the first game of his upcoming season. – (Super K)

– Kenneth Murray: The Sooners are also in the top group of schools for 2017 LB Kenneth Murray (Missouri City, TX). Murray also recently visited Texas and Texas A&M, as well as Ole Miss, but tells TFB that he will visit OU “sometime later this summer.”

Murray revealed on Thursday that he will announce his commitment decision on August 10th. Murray has also indicated that he would like to visit Michigan prior to said decision date.

While Murray has released a Top 10, I get the sense he has narrowed his list of schools to the likes of Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Michigan & Ole Miss.

It is of note, however, that Murray expects to be an early enrollee. So were he to commit to Oklahoma, he’d be someone who could come in and compete for the spot that Jordan Evans will vacate after this season. – (Super K)

– Creed Humphrey and O-Line Numbers: Creed Humphrey followed up a couple of trips to OU last week with a trip to Texas A&M this past weekend. TAMU is going to be the stiffest competition for the Sooners here, and we really don’t have a good sense of which way he’s leaning at the moment

Humphrey hasn’t said much to anyone, but did let TFB know that even after his TAMU trip his commitment timeline is still intact. “As of right now, I plan on doing it (committing) later this month.”

In speaking to folks on the TAMU side of things, they seem very confident. But with Humphrey being an in-state kid, having a brother that goes to OU, growing up in an OU household, and the track record Oklahoma and Bill Bedenbaugh have in churning out excellent offensive linemen, the Sooners certainly have some advantages.

If the Sooners were to land Humphrey, that would likely leave only one additional spot for an offensive lineman. I’m told Oklahoma would like to take 2-3 OL this year. – (Super K)

– Addison Gumbs: Earlier in the week we noted that 2017 LB Addison Gumbs had changed his announcement timeline slightly. Instead of announcing later this month, he has pushed it back to early July with the possibility that he may announce his decision at The Opening.

However, we checked with a couple sources and still get the impression  the Sooners are in a strong position to land Gumbs. At this point, we continue to believe OU leads here. – (Super K)

– Parrish Cobb: We’ve mentioned before receiving some conflicting information on where Parrish Cobb is likely to end up if he receives a release from his NLI.

Earlier this week TFB spoke with a new source that is close to the family, who echoed the sentiment of other folks we’ve spoken to. In that while the family is considering Oklahoma, Texas appears to be his likely landing spot. – (Super K)

– Team Note | Michiah Quick: Earlier in the week we mentioned that Michiah Quick was looking good early on in team led 7-on-7 sessions. And we’ve since been told Quick continued to impress on Wednesday.

Evidently he ended the week with 3 INTs and was running with the second team (first team is, as expected, Jordan Thomas & Dakota Austin) along side PJ Mbanasor.

That isn’t to say Quick has it all figured it out, of course. We’ve been told he, like any corner, has been beat beat at times and still has a lot to learn. But it does sound like the play-making instincts are certainly there.

Even if Quick isn’t able to beat out Austin (or Mbanasor) this fall, it’s starting to sound like he will at the very least provide quality depth. And be a guy the Sooners can rely on when much of the secondary leaves following this season. – (Super K)

– Team Note | Freshmen Getting Cleared: Just wanted to note that while some of the freshmen have started participating in workouts and 7-on-7 (we mentioned Abdul Adams and Mykel Jones are already impressing some folks in the Wednesday OP), there are still a number of incoming freshman that have yet to be fully cleared.

TFB checked with a source yesterday to see how Caleb Kelly and Parnell Motley were fairing and was told that neither (as of Wednesday) had been cleared. However, I suspect most everyone should be cleared by the end of this week. – (Super K)