OU 2023 Transfer Portal tracker time

The OU regular season is done. The Sooners bounced back in a huge way with a 10-2 year for Team 129. Although it was solid season, it is indeed transfer portal time.

You shouldn’t expect massive defections, but there will be guys that leave the program. It’s already happening.

OU hit it out of the park in the portal for the 2023 class. See if Oklahoma can do it again.

“By the end of the year, things reveal themselves and maybe you’re somewhere else,” said head coach Brent Venables earlier this season. “But you have an inkling with guys graduating and where young people are, you know what an immediate need where you can bring a guy in that you feel like can make a difference.

“If the portal allows you to do it, you can enhance a position when you have sudden departures, whether that’s through the leave on their own or that maybe you’ve got a bunch of guys at one position graduating or that declare early for the draft, it allows you to have many questions answered.

“Maybe you can bring in a guy that that is more of a safety valve, if you will. But the biggest impact is where somebody can come at a position of need and make it better immediately. So it all depends on where your roster is and what type of guys that you’re able to recruit out of high school.

“And where we have been the first couple of years is, to me, my vision is it’ll be not as much, but it’s still going to be. I’m not naive. I know how with the fluidity of players being able to leave, you’ve got to maximize when you feel like you have the opportunity to recruit in the free agent market.”

Here is a look at the portal defections for the Sooners.

The story: Just a tale of never being able to be on the same page and healthy at the same time. From defensive line to offensive line back to defensive line. But injuries were just as big of a part of Hicks’ story as anything else. He wasn’t on OU’s roster for the 2023 season but did announce earlier this month he is headed for the portal.

The story: It was the childhood dream for Graham to be a Sooner. He got to live it, even if the ending wasn’t quite what all parties involved were hoping for. Graham will always be remembered for his one-handed interception vs. Nebraska in 2021. But he’ll want to show he can do more. A move to receiver never took off the ground because of a season-ending injury before it started.

*SoonerScoop will keep this updated all throughout the rest of the portal season.