Oklahoma football: Dimitri Flowers returning for spring game

The 2022 Red-White spring game is quickly approaching for the Oklahoma football Sooners, and many of the program’s former stars will be present for are the festivities this Saturday/

The Heisman statue dedication for Baker Mayfield will take place at halftime of the game, and one of his top weapons from his 2017 Heisman season will be in attendance.

That would be Dimitri Flowers, who came to Oklahoma as a three-star prospect out of San Antonio, Texas. Flowers, an H-back, was a part of Bob Stoops’ 2014 recruiting class.

Flowers had a quiet season as a freshman in 2014 and another quiet start to the year in 2015. As the season went along and the games got bigger, Flowers became more and more of a weapon in the pass game for first-year offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley. Flowers was the recipient of a first-play trick play against Iowa State and an incredible scramble-drill play by Mayfield against Baylor as the Sooners made their first trip to the College Football Playoff.

Flowers continued his strong play in 2016, even starting at running back against Iowa State with both Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon out. In all that season, Flowers caught four touchdown passes. Flowers became the first in a long line of excellent H-backs in the Riley era, a player that could be used all over the field for many different purposes.

When Riley took over as the head coach in 2017, Flowers showed out in his final season in a Sooner uniform. He caught 26 passes and five touchdowns and emerged as one of the veteran leaders on a young team with a first-time head coach. He had a career-best performance against Ohio State in the Horseshoe, catching nine passes for 98 yards. Flowers played in all fourteen games, starting thirteen of them.

Flowers went undrafted in the 2018 NFL draft and had practice squad stints with the Jets and Jaguars. He also played in the XFL on Stoops’ Dallas Renegades in 2020. In June 2020, he announced that he had been accepted into the OU College of Law

Dimitri Flowers never played for Brent Venables, but his attendance at the 2022 Spring Game shows how much the program’s former players, whether they played offense or defense, think of Venables, and that they think he is the right man for the job.

Sooner fans have good reason to be excited for the future.