Sooners lose QB commitment from 2025 class

As the 11 o'clock hour approaches in the 2024 Oklahoma football season, the Sooners not only find themselves fighting to save their season, but also keeping their 2025 recruiting class intact.

Four-star quarterback recruit Kevin Sperry announced on Thursday night that he is flipping his commitment from Oklahoma to Florida State. The leaves the Sooners without a quarterback prospect in its 2025 class with the early signing date for 2025 recruits coming up on Dec. 4. Sperry is rated by ESPN as the No. 11 pocket passer in the 2025 class nationally.

Sperry was the fourth highest-rated prospect in the Sooners' 2025 class before his decommitment and is the third OU recruit to flip his commitment in this cycle. Previously Oklahoma lost a pair of defensive lineman. Floyd Bouchard out of Miami, Florida, and Ka'Mori Moore from the Kansas City area.

Sperry, who will play his senior season at the same Denton, Texas, high school (Denton Guyer) as current OU quarterback Jackson Arnold, had been committed to the Sooners since March 2023 and was the first commitment in OU's 2025 class.

No specific reasons were given by Sperry for the change of heart, but there is widespread speculation that the uncertainty around the open offensive coordinator job and what that could mean as well as the future of the quarterback position were prime factors. Another factor that probably played into it is that Sperry was recruited by former Oklahoma OC Jeff Lebby, who left the post after the 2023 season to become head coach at Mississippi State.

The 6-foot, 1-inch, 200-pound Sperry began his high school career at Rock Hill High School in Frisco, Texas before transferring to Carl Albert High School in Oklahoma for the 2023 season shortly after committing to OU.