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Oklahoma football: Ranking the Sooners quarterbacks since 2000

By Christopher Dukes

DALLAS, TX - OCTOBER 14: Baker Mayfield #6 of the Oklahoma Sooners wears the Golden Hat Trophy after the 29-24 win over the Texas Longhorns at Cotton Bowl on October 14, 2017 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Richard W. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
DALLAS, TX - OCTOBER 14: Baker Mayfield #6 of the Oklahoma Sooners wears the Golden Hat Trophy after the 29-24 win over the Texas Longhorns at Cotton Bowl on October 14, 2017 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Richard W. Rodriguez/Getty Images) /
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3. Sam Bradford 2006-09

The best quarterbacks don’t even look like they are trying. That was Sam Bradford.

Silky smooth with an effortless-looking delivery, Bradford revolutionized the quarterback position again for the Sooners. In 2008 he threw for at least 300 yards in 11 of the Sooners’ 14 games on the way to a Big 12 title and a BCS Championship Game appearance.

Bradford’s Oklahoma offense set the NCAA record for most points in a season at the time and scored 60 or more in five straight games, a Division I record that stands to this day.

Bradford was everything you want a quarterback to be: big – reasonably mobile and with a rocket arm – but his real claim to fame was his uncanny accuracy. The 6-foot-4 Putnam City North product could thread the needle as well as anyone who ever put on the Crimson and Cream.

His 50 touchdown passes in 2008 still stand as a school record. He went on to become the first Oklahoma football quarterback to ever be taken No. 1 overall in the NFL draft, a path he would help blaze for a pair of future No. 1 overall draft picks behind him in Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray.

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