The Football Brainiacs

– Linebacker Recruiting: Earlier this week both LB Mique Juarez (Torrance, CA) and Caleb Kelly (Fresno, CA) publicly narrowed their respective lists of top schools. OU failed (not surprisingly) to make the cut with Juarez when he announced his Top 2 schools as UCLA and Ole Miss. Kelly, the long-time OU target, announced a Top 3 that included Oklahoma, Oregon & Notre Dame. As we noted several weeks back, Kelly has told us he won’t announce until signing day.

Sticking with Kelly, however, some many be surprised by the omission of Michigan among his top schools. For a while it seemed like the Wolverines were a major player in his recruitment. But we were told recently that Michigan was no longer recruiting Kelly, for whatever reasons however we do not know.

Oklahoma has long been at, or near the top for Kelly, but one has to think with the departure of Dom Alexander and the prospect of immediate playing time, it only makes the Sooners all the more attractive for the talented Cali prospect. – (Super K)

– Velus Jones: Not long ago the Sooners were expecting a commitment from star 2016 WR Velus Jones (Saraland, AL). Jones was set to announce but then decided to delay. I haven’t had a chance to speak to Jones on the phone since then, but I wanted to pass on a short albeit interesting note regarding Jones.

I was exchanging texts with Jones shortly after the game against Clemson and asked what he thought of the Sooners at that point, to which Jones responded by simply saying, “I’m coming.” Sounded like pretty good news for OU to me. – (Super K)

Tramonda Moore: In case you missed this yesterday, here’s a great clip of 2016 OT target Tramonda Moore going against Clemson DE commit (and one-time OU target) Xavier Kelly.

OL Tramonda Moore vs DE Xavier Kelly pic.twitter.com/Xle7kpDYr0

— Brian Perroni (@Perroni247) January 4, 2016

What adds to the excitement of that video is that Moore has come out and publicly stated that Oklahoma is his current leader. We alluded to this a week ago in the Open Post saying:

A recruit that is trending in OU’s direction is 2016 OT Tramonda Moore (OKC). Moore has been considering OU, OSU, TCU and Alabama for a while but more and more it looked like OSU was pulling away. We’ve been told that may not be the case as much anymore and that his latest visit to Oklahoma went really well. Moore has folks around him that want to see him at OSU but we are told OU is his current preference. 

– Penn State WR: Interesting to note that Penn State WR Eugene (Geno) Lewis has graduated from Penn State but has a year of eligibility remaining and is considering a transfer.