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Oklahoma football: WR Trejan Bridges cleared for Big 12 Championship

By Chip Rouse

NORMAN, OK - SEPTEMBER 07: Wide receiver Trejan Bridges #8 of the Oklahoma Sooners runs upfield against the South Dakota Coyotes at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 7, 2019 in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners defeated the Coyotes 70-14. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK - SEPTEMBER 07: Wide receiver Trejan Bridges #8 of the Oklahoma Sooners runs upfield against the South Dakota Coyotes at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 7, 2019 in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners defeated the Coyotes 70-14. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /
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It’s been a long wait for Oklahoma football wide receiver Trejan Bridges, but he is available to play in the Big 12 championship game on Saturday.

Joey Helmer of 247Sports reported the news on Friday afternoon after his 247Sports colleague Brandon Drumm confirmed the news with the Oklahoma athletic department.

The sophomore wide receiver has been cleared from a suspension enforced on him, along with DE Ronnie Perkins and RB Rhamondre Stevenson, before the Sooners’ College Football Playoff game last season.

The original length of the suspension was expected to be six games, but in Bridges’ case it became 10 games, for reasons that have not been disclosed. Head coach Lincoln Riley has been saying all season, that the process surrounding the suspensions has been a complex one.

At his weekly press conference this week, the Sooner head coach said, “It’s been very difficult (for Bridges). It’s been hard, (but) he’s hanging in there and doing his best to push through it. He’s worked hard at practice, and he’ll be ready when the opportunity comes up.”

It appears that opportunity has finally come, and Bridges will be available for Oklahoma’s next two games (the Big 12 Championship and OU’s bowl appearance).

Bridges’ availability, along with the recent return of Stevenson and the return of fellow wide receiver Jadon Hasselwood from a knee injury that has kept him out of action since the beginning of the season, provides the OU offense with a huge shot in the arm from where the Sooners were in early October when they lost at Iowa State.

Bridges and Hasselwood were two of three five-star receivers (Theo Wease is the other) who were part of Oklahoma’s top-10 2019 recruiting class.

Riley gave an indication of what having Bridges back and ready to go means to the Sooners when he compared him to Oklahoma State’s outstanding big-play receiver Tylan Wallace when Oklahoma was preparing for this year’s Bedlam game against the Cowboys.

"“Their games are very, very similar, remarkably similar, in my opinion,” Riley said."

We’ll have to wait to see how much Bridges will be used, if at all, on Saturday. But just knowing that he is available to play is a giant plus for the Sooner offense, which must be at its best against a very good Iowa State defense.

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