So much for their highly ranked recruiting classes.
Oklahoma roster takes minor hits
The annual summer attrition of college football has already begun hitting the Oklahoma Sooners.
Last week, running back Keith Ford announced he was leaving Norman two months after being slapped with an indefinite suspension.
Sunday, wide receiver K.J. Young was dismissed from the team.
Then on Monday, according to multiple reports, redshirt freshman cornerback Tito Windham elected to transfer. One OU website added that fellow redshirt freshman cornerback Marcus Green also had plans to transfer, though he later tweeted that he was staying at OU.
None of the players above, however, figured to play a major role for the 2015 Sooners.
Even before the suspension Ford had fallen on the depth chart behind freshman All-American Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon, who was the top-rated signee of the 2014 class. OU was also very high this spring on incoming freshman runner Rodney Anderson. Had he stayed, Ford was going to find it difficult to get carries.
Young and Windham were also buried on the depth chart.
Still, attrition bit by bit can chip away at a program's depth, which is what has happened to the Sooners in recent years. Football Brainiacs looked back at OU's 2011, 2012 and 2013 recruiting classes and determined that almost 40 percent of those players either .
Over time, that begins to have an effect.
Oklahoma roster takes minor hits
The annual summer attrition of college football has already begun hitting the Oklahoma Sooners.
Last week, running back Keith Ford announced he was leaving Norman two months after being slapped with an indefinite suspension.
Sunday, wide receiver K.J. Young was dismissed from the team.
Then on Monday, according to multiple reports, redshirt freshman cornerback Tito Windham elected to transfer. One OU website added that fellow redshirt freshman cornerback Marcus Green also had plans to transfer, though he later tweeted that he was staying at OU.
None of the players above, however, figured to play a major role for the 2015 Sooners.
Even before the suspension Ford had fallen on the depth chart behind freshman All-American Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon, who was the top-rated signee of the 2014 class. OU was also very high this spring on incoming freshman runner Rodney Anderson. Had he stayed, Ford was going to find it difficult to get carries.
Young and Windham were also buried on the depth chart.
Still, attrition bit by bit can chip away at a program's depth, which is what has happened to the Sooners in recent years. Football Brainiacs looked back at OU's 2011, 2012 and 2013 recruiting classes and determined that almost 40 percent of those players either .
Over time, that begins to have an effect.
