This week, we’ve been looking at one player with the potential to make a difference right away.
Up next: Oklahoma.
Instant impact recruit: RB Trey Sermon
No team in college football lost more offensive production from last season than the Sooners.
Joe Mixon finished second in the country in all-purpose yardage. Samaje Perine left as the school's all-time leading rusher. Dede Westbrook was a Heisman finalist at receiver.
Finding new weapons for quarterback Baker Mayfield will be paramount for the Sooners this offseason if they are to gun for a third straight Big 12 title and make another run at the College Football Playoff. The good news is the Sooners have several talented newcomers as options, with ESPN 300 signee Sermon topping that list.
The Sooners plucked the nation's eighth-ranked running back out of Georgia, where nearly every SEC power was heavily recruiting him. At 6-foot-1, 210 pounds, Sermon has the size to be an every-down back. He's also enrolled early, which should only enhance his chances of contending for the wide-open starting job in the backfield alongside Mayfield.
The Sooners also signed ESPN JC50 running back Marcelias Sutton to give the offense a jolt. ESPN JC50 receiver Marquise Brown should help Mayfield in the passing game, as well.
But Sermon has the talent to be Oklahoma's running back of the future. And, perhaps, its running back of the now, too.
