The Oklahoma Sooners signed 18 players to their 2025 freshmen class on Wednesday, and the class is looking great on paper. Several recruiting sites have this class as a top 12 class in the country, and that may even transfer to the field as well.
This year the Sooners got some huge contributions from freshmen players and even some sophomores. Remember when the initial two-deep depth chart came out at the beginning of the season? Several freshmen made it, including one starter in defensive tackle Jayden Jackson. By the end of the year, Eli Bowen was maybe the best cornerback on the team, as a freshman.
So the Sooners are definitely going to be needing their young guys from this class to show up to work every day and produce. And luckily for them, they have some guys who can do that right away. One of those players is Trent Wilson, a defensive lineman who got an awesome compliment from head coach Brent Venables on Wednesday.
“He looks like he’s 40, he’s got a great maturity to him. Everybody in the country recruited him, really thankful he saw the things that we’re building here,” Venables said.
Venables, during the press conference, I guess you could say, with all media and donors in attendance, said that because of how mature his game is, Wilson looks like he’s 40 instead of 18 years old. And, no 18-year-old wants to be told they look 40, let’s face it, and that’s not a knock on anyone who’s 40.
But, that’s a compliment nonetheless. The Sooners have a great class on their hands, and Wilson is one of the players that should elevate this young team in a few years. The Sooners won the Wilson sweepstakes over teams like Penn State, Ohio State, Texas A&M, and Maryland.