Oklahoma football: CeeDee Lamb embracing leadership role
Oklahoma football wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is enters the season with the possibility of a Biletnikoff Award, All American status and a national championship all on the table, but he is still taking time to pay his knowledge forward to the next crop of receivers.
CeeDee Lamb burst on the scene as a true freshman for Oklahoma football. Just a few months after his high school prom Lamb was named a starter by the end of fall camp and proceeded to etch his name on top of the Oklahoma record book on top for both receiving yards (807) and receiving touchdowns (seven).
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Coming from arguably the best Sooner freshman wide receiver in school history, his comments about the current crop of rookie pass catchers Theo Wease, Jadon Haselwood and Trejan Bridges should strike fear into every defense in the Big 12.
“They are a lot better than I was (at this point),” Lamb said at Big 12 Media Days. “They catch on a lot faster than I did (as a freshman). They caught on very quick. As you can see in the spring game, you see what they can do with the ball in their hands.”
Wease, Haselwood and Bridges were all five-star recruits in what many have called the most talented receiving class in modern recruiting history, especially when paired with four-star tight end Austin Stogner.
Lamb, now the elder statesman on the team, is doing everything in his power to teach both vocally and by example in hopes of getting as many young guys involved in the rotation as possible. In part because he understands the more dangerous receiving threats the Sooners can put around him, the less defenses can key on the junior pass catcher.
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He added:
"“I am doing my best to lead the charge. I am going to give them all the answers they need to any questions they have. I am just help them. (To) help them help me. Those are the guys who I want to be out there on the field with me and when they are out there I want them to know everything they need to know.”"
Whether it’s Wease, Haselwood, Bridges or one of the other young receivers on the roster like Charelston Rambo or Drake Stoops, the Sooners shouldn’t be wanting for pass catching talent in 2019.