The Football Brainiacs

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– Du’Vonta Lampkin: I’ve been in communication with someone close to Du’Vonta Lampkin and if all goes according to plan, OU fans should be receiving some good news as soon as today, or early next week at the latest.

I’ve been asked not to say too much at the moment, though, I suspect you all can probably connect the dots on your own. We’ll have more on this once everything is official. #JustWaitOnIt – (Super K)

– Amani Bledsoe: 2016 DT Amani Bledsoe (Lawrence, KS) released his Top 6 yesterday and, as expected, OU made the cut along with: Oregon, Kansas, Missouri, NC State, and UCLA.

You will recall that Bledsoe recently visited Oklahoma for a fall camp practice. And while I have not had a chance to catch up with Bledsoe yet, I did speak with someone who was at practice that day and was told Mike Stoops spent a good amount of time talking to Bledsoe, “saying all the right things.”

You may also recall Bledsoe visited both OU and OSU on that same day, yet the Cowboys were noticeably absent from the earlier referenced Top 6. – (Super K)

– Teton Saltes: I caught up with 2016 DE Teton Saltes (Albuquerque, NM) earlier this week to see where things currently stand with regards to his recruitment.

For those of you who may not remember Saltes, he is a tall athletic defensive end who only starting playing football last year. He started picking up interest and offers from power five schools last spring. Saltes’ mother is originally from Oklahoma, and Mike Stoops made an in-person visit with Saltes this past spring.

Teton said he still continues to have regular communication with Stoops. He does not have his official visits lined up yet and still hasn’t received an offer from OU, but Saltes said, “they are hinting at offering and want me to come out on a visit.” – (Super K)

– Caleb Kelly: I caught up with Caleb Kelly this week to check in, and we spoke briefly about his official visit plans. Given that he has already been to Norman multiple times now, some may have thought there would be a chance the Sooners may not receive one of Kelly’s five official visits. Kelly quickly put that to rest, however, confirming he does plan to take an official visit to OU at some point this season.  – (Super K)

– Scrimmage Notes: The Sooners held their final scrimmage of fall camp yesterday and will wrap up camp altogether today with one final practice before breaking for the weekend. After speaking with a few sources, here are a few notes on yesterday’s scrimmage:

* As we mentioned earlier in the week, the defense has been dominatant most of the week. That continued yesterday with the defense winning the day fairly decisively. However, as I’ll note below, there are a number things to keep in mind with respect to the defense’s ‘dominance’ yesterday.

* I was told that both Joe Mixon and Samaje Perine played sparingly during the scrimmage. Not an injury issue, just precautionary.

* Dede Westbrook did not go yesterday as he has been dealing with a personal issue (based on a tweet from yesterday it sounds like it has been taken care of, though).

* Sterling Shepard only took part in the offense’s first series yesterday.

* I’m also told that three or four offensive linemen played little or not at all yesterday. Some guys dinged up but nothing serious Again, I’m told their being held out was primarily precautionary.

* With four of your primary weapons playing little to none and a number of offensive linemen also held out, I don’t reckon too much can be taken from yesterday’s scrimmage. Although it’s certainly encouraging to see the development of depth.

* Was told Cody Thomas struggled yesterday throwing two interceptions. One was a tipped ball by a receiver — which I believe you can see on the scrimmage highlights OU released — and the other was just a bad read on a route. Definitely not one of Thomas’ strongest performances as I was also told he had trouble with accuracy yesterday, overthrowing a number of passes.

* Baker Mayfield and Trevor Knight had the best day among the QBs, though it sounds like a slight edge would probably go to Mayfield. I was actually told Knight may have received a few more reps, but I was led to believe not to read too much into that.

* It sounds like Mayfield did a great job of taking care the ball yesterday. Which seems to be a trend for this week of practices as we noted yesterday. It’s clear he has done a good job of remedying some of the turnover issues he had earlier in fall camp.

* Was told the offensive line was dominated by the defensive line but was cautioned, again, that some offensive linemen sat out (and of course OU’s top two RBs as well).

* Even taking the note above into account, one source said with respect to the front seven, “the defensive line could be something really special and the linebackers are finally being physical again.”

* Another good day for Jeffrey Mead with “two crazy catches” though apparently one was ruled incomplete.

* Defensively, I’m told Steven Parker had a great day and a great camp overall. Parker is really emerging as a leader in the secondary. The freshman safeties still need to work on is being vocal and making calls, but that is something Parker has gone out of his way to try and help them with.

* I was also told that PJ Mbanasor tooks some reps with the 1’s and held his own. He did make a mistake or two, apparently tried to get a little too physical with a receiver and got beat. But overall it sounds like he had a good day.

* I’m told the team did tackle to the ground yesterday, however, they were told to take it easy (to be mindful of injuries).

– UPDATE (Fri., 1:01 pm): As we said above, Du’Vonta Lampkin confirms he will be attending OU.

Officially admitted at Oklahoma University #BOOMERSOONER ⭕️??

— BamBam Forever❤️ (@DeeChilllin) August 21, 2015