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Oklahoma football: 247Sports ranks OU among 10 most talented 2020 rosters

By Chip Rouse

NORMAN, OK - NOVEMBER 10: The Oklahoma Sooners take the field before the game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on November 10, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 48-47. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***
NORMAN, OK - NOVEMBER 10: The Oklahoma Sooners take the field before the game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on November 10, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 48-47. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** /
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Barton Simmons, 247Sports director of scouting, has Oklahoma football in select company – where you would expect Lincoln Riley’s Sooners to be — as one of the 10 most talented rosters heading into the 2020 season.

Simmons’ top-10-most-talented list features the usual cast of familiar characters, teams that seem to be in national championship contention every season, but he stops short of ranking them in any particular order.

His selection of the teams is based largely on returning production and potential early impact talent from the 2020 recruiting cycle, two elements that the Sooners have in abundance.

"“By now you expect the Sooners to win the Big 12 Conference. You expect them to make the College Football Playoff more times than not, and you expect them to be in the top 10,” writes Joey Helmer, OI Insider for 247Sports."

“If you think the latest Heisman Trophy finalist’s departure (Jalen Hurts) from Oklahoma means a dip in production,” Simmons says, “I’ve got bad news for you. Oklahoma’s rising sophomore class has the best set of offensive talent in the country, and that’s led by the top quarterback in Spencer Rattler.”

The Sooners should lose very little from last season’s Big 12-best offensive production with Rattler as signal caller. This will be his first season in the starter’s role, but he has been in Riley’s offensive system for a year now and he will be surrounded by elite offensive talent and an offensive line that returns fully in tact.

Jadon Hasselwood, the No. 1 wide receiver in the 2019 recruiting class, tore his ACL in the offseason and could miss a good part of the season, but that could result in playing time for 2020 wide-receiver recruit Marvin Mims, out of Frisco, Texas, and an opportunity to make an impact in his first season.

In case you are interested, the other nine teams that make up Simmons’ 10 teams with the most talented rosters in 2020, they are, again in no particular order: Oregon, Texas A&M, Florida, Penn State, LSU, Georgia, Clemson, Ohio State and Alabama.

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