And just like that, the Oklahoma Sooners all of a sudden have two more commits added to their 2027 recruiting class after Brent Venables & Co. wasted no time landing a pair of targets in the same month they even discovered them.
Wide receiver Malahn Green and interior offensive lineman Jaxon Lawler both announced over the weekend that they committed to the Sooners while on official visits in Norman. When the calendar flipped from May to June, being a Sooner wasn't even an option for either rising prospect.
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— Jaxon Lawler ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@JaxonLawler) June 14, 2026
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Malahn Green and Jaxsen Lawler jump on sudden opportunities to be Sooners
It was especially a whirlwind for Green and the Sooners as they filled one of their receiver openings in just a week's time. Last Tuesday, Green showed up to OU for a prospect camp and impressed enough that the Sooners offered him and worked enough magic to get him back on campus just three days later for an official visit this past weekend. He then committed a week and a day after the Sooners had lost two receiver commits in the same day the previous weekend.
Green wasn't even on recruiting radars until the Sooners pointed him out. OU was just his second Power Four offer after Nebraska, and when the Sooners did offer last week, Green wasn't even rated or ranked by any major recruiting outlet.
Scouts then had to take notice, and he's now a three-star prospect and the No. 147 receiver in the class, according to 247Sports, out of Cardinal Ritter College Prep in St. Louis. Rivals still doesn't have anything for him.
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Lawler, from Bushland High School in Texas, also caught the Sooners' attention during first Brent Venables Elite Football Camp of the summer the first week of June. He seemed destined to play on the other side of Bedlam for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, but when the Sooners offered the day after OSU, it was clear he'd make the right choice.
"I kind of made a promise to myself," Lawler told SoonerScoop's Parker Thune after getting the OU offer. "I said, 'I will play football for OU one day.' And so it's kind of cool to see all of that come true. I started crying when they told me."
According to the 247Sports composite, Lawler, listed at 6-foot-3 and 265 pounds, is the No. 81 interior offensive lineman in the 2027 class as a three-star recruit. His other offers include Oklahoma State, Tulsa, North Texas, Wake Forest, UTSA, Air Force, Navy, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Rice, UTEP and Wyoming.
Lawler ultimately committed just 12 days after getting his OU offer.
Unlike Green at receiver, though, the Sooners had no real need along the offensive line. But what that shows is that offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh saw so much promise in Lawler that he didn't care that he already had five other commits lined up from the same class.
The Sooners are up to 24 commitments after their last weekend of official visits with the additions of Green and Lawler, but the class still isn't likely finished yet.
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