By Oklahoma football standards, recruiting over the last few years has not been rated as strong as the classes were in the first decade under Bob Stoops’ coaching tenure.
The last four years (2013-16), Rivals.com rated the Sooners’ recruiting classes as 19th, 14th, 15th and 15th best in the nation, respectively.
The recruiting effort for the 2017 class, however, is off to one of the strongest starts in Stoops’ 17 seasons as the Sooners’ head coach.
Fresh off his 11th 11-win season at Oklahoma and a spot in the 2015 College Football Playoff, and on a weekend in which the Sooner basketball team advanced to college basketball’s Final Four, OU announced the verbal commitments of two highly recruited wide receivers as members of a 2017 class considered, at this early stage of the process, one of the best in the country.
Sooner commitments for the 2017 class reached 11 over the weekend when a pair of wide receivers from the state of Texas committed to OU within minutes of each other.
Charleston Rambo, who easily jumps to the top of the list as recruit with the coolest name and one particularly suited for the sport of football, is rated a four-star prospect by Rivals.com and the No. 151 overall prospect in the national class of 2017.
Rambo will be a senior this fall in Cedar Falls, Texas. Among the FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) schools that were highly interested in Rambo were Notre Dame, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Houston and Arizona State.
Jalen Reagor is a three-star prospect out of Waxahachie, Texas. Don’t be mislead, however, by Reagor’s three-star rating. He is considered a strong enough talent to draw a lot of interest from such elite programs as Alabama, Notre Dame, Oregon, Florida State, Texas A&M and Texas Tech, to whom he was committed until March 10, according to a report by Jason Kersey of the Oklahoma City Oklahoman.
Rambo and Reagor are the second and third wide-receiver commitments for OU’s 2017 class. They join four-star prospect Cedarian Lamb, another recruit from the Lone Star State from Richmond, Texas.