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Oklahoma football: Who are Sooners’ 10 best players at midpoint of 2023 season?

ByChip Rouse|
Sep 1, 2019; Norman, OK, USA; Oklahoma Sooners cheerleaders hold up megaphones during the game against the Houston Cougars at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 1, 2019; Norman, OK, USA; Oklahoma Sooners cheerleaders hold up megaphones during the game against the Houston Cougars at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
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Oklahoma’s Jalil Farooq (3) scores a touchdown in front of SMU’s Jake Bailey (12) in the second half of the college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Southern Methodist University Mustangs at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.
Oklahoma’s Jalil Farooq (3) scores a touchdown in front of SMU’s Jake Bailey (12) in the second half of the college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Southern Methodist University Mustangs at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.

3. Junior wide receiver Jalil Farooq

Jalil Farooq is one of the holdovers from the Lincoln Riley era at OU and he has been one of the prime receiving targets for Dillon Gabriel this season. He will become even more so now with Andrel Anthony lost for the remainder of the year.

Farooq has 20 catches for 415 yards this season and a couple of touchdown receptions. He also is the primary kickoff returner for the Sooners. Like a number of Oklahoma players, Farooq may have had his best game this season last Saturday, when he had five catches for a career-high 130 yards. That was his second 100-yard receiving game this season. He pulled in six receptions for 126 yards in OU’s win at Tulsa earlier in the season.

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