EGBUKA THROWS WITH WILLIAMS
Not be too much of an internet sleuth here, but Egbuka's visit to Oklahoma this weekend – judging by what you can see via social media – has included a ton of one-on-one time with Sooners five-star quarterback commit Caleb Williams.
That includes plenty of time spent on a field in or around Norman throwing passes and working on chemistry.
Egbuka has his choice of which five-star quarterback he wants to pair up with in the 2021 class between Williams, Ohio State's Kyle McCord and Washington's Sam Huard.
All the way back in June, Eleven Warriors had good information that Oklahoma had squeezed its way into the top tier of Egbuka's recruitment and that the Sooners were a team that should be taken seriously.
Though many had speculated that Oklahoma was just a fourth team that Egbuka had thrown into his final four, we were told that Lincoln Riley and receivers coach Dennis Simmons had made a major impression on him later in the process than Ohio State, Washington and Clemson and that the Sooners were an emerging threat.
Sooners receivers coach Dennis Simmons made a lot of visits out to Steilacoom before the pandemic shut down in-person recruiting, which helped add more impact to the multiple positive Zoom meetings with the staff as a whole and the recent virtual visit. Those coaches have gotten to know Egbuka as a person over the last several months, propelling themselves to get into that group of four. Oklahoma wasn’t doing anything the other three programs haven’t been doing all along; it just did it a little later than the other three.
That information was proven accurate, and Oklahoma has as a good of a chance as the other two programs to land him. When we checked in a couple months ago, I was told the race was running 1) Ohio State 2) Oklahoma 3) Washington with the final two a close 2-3.
With the Sooners getting perhaps the final visit from Egbuka (depending on whether or not Egbuka chooses to push forward with his plan to play his senior season in the spring and enroll at his college of choice in the summer), it might wind up giving them the lead.
