Oklahoma Lands No. 2 for 2025

Though the Oklahoma Sooners have just six commitments in the class of 2024, on Monday they have already picked up their second pledge for the class of 2025 in the form of Ennis, Texas wide receiver Gracen Harris who pledged to the Sooners over numerous suitors just moments ago.

A big part of his decision was, not surprisingly, his relationship with wide receivers coach Emmett Jones which goes much further than Jones’ arrival in Norman earlier this spring.

“When he came on board it was amazing, coach Jones was the first person to offer me from Kansas, he was the first person to give me that chance. He offered me at Oklahoma, that just shows me he is going to recruit me anywhere,” Harris said of his prioritization by the Sooners staffer.

“(First, I told) coach Jones and then I talked to coach Lebby about my decision. Coach Jones was hyped.

Brent Venables and the Oklahoma Sooners landed Harris, thanks in no small part to an emerging relationship with his fellow rising junior, quarterback commitment Kevin Sperry.

“We talked at the spring game, visited a bit and I got his contact info and we’ve been texting,” he said. “That was also one of the reasons (I felt comfortable with Oklahoma), he was really good.”

Harris Meets Fellow Two-Sport Star in Norman

During his recent trip to the Red-White game in Norman, Harris, the nation’s No. 37 wide receiver, watched Kyler Murray unveil his Heisman statue. Little did Murray know that Harris, a fellow two-sport standout had been a big fan of his game for quite some time.

“My freshman year was my first year playing wide receiver, I played quarterback. I was a big, huge, Kyler Murray fan,” he admitted. “I got to meet him, it definitely moved me.

“(But) I was playing it cool.”

One of the things that made the Oklahoma Sooners a ‘dream come true’ for Harris was his recent baseball offer from the Oklahoma Sooners head man Skip Johnson. The two can’t currently talk but Harris says the opportunity to play both sports in Norman was idea for him.

“The NCAA just made a new rule where they can’t even talk to them until my junior year unless I’m on campus, they said that if I do commit that they want me to be a two-sport athlete,” he said.

“Really, the baseball offer, as well as the football offer, that’s everything that I’ve always wanted, to play two sports. I’m getting the opportunity, why not take it?”

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