It feels like an offer is all it's going to take for the Oklahoma Sooners to eventually get a commitment out of 2027 interior offensive lineman Jaxon Lawler.
Lawler impressed enough this week during the first Brent Venables Elite Football Camp of the summer that he earned an OU offer as a rather unknown prospect now on the rise. Lawler admitted to SoonerScoop's Parker Thune that the opportunity was a dream come true and it sounds like a commitment should be coming soon since it's a chance Lawler has always wanted.
"I kind of made a promise to myself," Lawler said. "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."
Sooners intrude Oklahoma State's recruitment with Jaxon Lawler's dream offer
Now, Lawler is just a commitment away from actually being a Sooner. He would be the sixth 2027 offensive line commit for the Sooners and join a stellar group that offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh has assembled. The class so far includes five-star offensive tackles Cooper Hackett and Kaeden Penny, three-star OT Luke Wilson, and three-star interior linemen Isaac Coughran and Tyson Ross.
Lawler would be an outlier and at the bottom of the totem pole based on recruiting ratings. There's obvious potential, though, and he's clearly underrated if Bedenbaugh was willing to dish out an offer despite already having such a loaded group.
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Lawler, listed at 6-foot-4 and 265 pounds, is still unrated and unranked by 247Sports, but he just popped up on Rivals' radar. Rivals has him as a three-star recruit and the No. 128 interior offensive lineman in the 2027 class out of Bushland High School in Texas.
OU is his biggest offer so far and it came just a day after Bedlam rival Oklahoma State offered after Lawler also impressed the Cowboys during a camp. Rivals actually has Lawler with a 92.8% chance to commit to Oklahoma State, but that was before the Sooners stormed in with a dream offer. He's taken four unofficial visits to OSU already.
His other offers include Wake Forest, North Texas, UTSA, Air Force, Navy, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Rice, Tulsa, UTEP, and Wyoming. That list will likely grow even more this summer if he keeps standing out at camps.
Lawler's current recruiting rankings and what else the Sooners have coming shouldn't water down fans' excitement about his potential. If anything, it should stir up even more anticipation if Bedenbaugh had that many reasons to ignore Lawler, but still couldn't resist extending an offer.
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