Oklahoma football: Sooners still actively adding to 2023 player roster

The 2023 Oklahoma football recruiting class is signed, sealed and in the books as one of the top five classes in the nation.

The Sooners’ 2023 class includes 26 scholarship athletes, but Brent Venables and his staff continued to add to the roster this past week earning commitments from four preferred walk-ons.

After receiving an offer from Oklahoma over the summer, on Friday wide-receiver prospect Patrick Cromer, out of Rome, Georgia, signed with the Sooners. Cromer is one of three preferred walk-on wide-receivers to sign with Oklahoma after National Signing Day on Wednesday.

Trey Brown, who comes to Norman from Christ Presbyterian Academy High School in Nashville, and in-state prospect Brandon Harper, from Noble, Oklahoma, also agreed to join the OU football program as preferred walk-on wide receivers.

Harper turned in a stellar high school career with 232 receptions for 3,800 receiving yards and 43 touchdowns. Brown played 18 varsity games in high school with 14 receptions for 177 yards and a touchdown.

Oklahoma lost several reserve quarterbacks from the 2022 roster to the transfer portal. The Sooners return starter Dillon Gabriel at that position and elite quarterback recruit Jackson Arnold, a five-star prospect who ranks as one of the top three quarterbacks in the 2023 class nationally, is the top recruit in the OU 2023 class. Backups General Booty and Davis Beville also return from last season.

But offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby believes you can never have enough quarterback depth, and this week the Sooners added Carson Horton from Dayton, Texas. It is believed Horton will also be a preferred walk-on.