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Uncommon Groups Were Cause for Concern After Season Opener
Oklahoma 2023 Report Cards:
Uncommon Groups Were Cause for Concern After Season Opener
The Sooners’ pros battled in numerous viewpoints this season as mishandles and missed field objectives tormenting the bunch.
After Lincoln Riley decided not to enlist a extraordinary team’s coach, Oklahoma fans figured the Sooners’ pros would move forward under Jay Nunez.
Serving as OU’s Senior Uncommon Groups Examiner, numerous thought that having a coach assigned to uncommon groups would offer assistance the players create their pro aptitudes. In 2023, be that as it may, Oklahoma’s gather battled in numerous perspectives, seriously harming the group at distinctive focuses all through the season.
Against Kansas, the Jayhawks booted a shallow kickoff right into the hands of edge rusher Marcus Stripling, who was serving as a blocker on the kickoff return group. Stripling endeavored to create a reasonable capture, but the ball ricocheted off his chest and onto the field, where a part of the Jayhawks’ kickoff scope group recuperated.
In Oklahoma’s last Tumult matchup, reinforcement punt returner LV Bunkley-Shelton muffed a punt but was able to recuperate the live ball. And as a rule unfaltering return man Gavin Freeman lost or bobbled three punts down the extend.
Whereas these plays are not a full embodiment of how the Sooners’ season went on uncommon groups, they are great markers of how messy Nunez’s bunch got to be in 2023.
Freeman was one of the team’s most outstanding players on uncommon groups, as the neighborhood speedster served as OU’s essential punt returner this season. In Oklahoma’s opener against Arkansas State, Freeman returned a punt 82 yards for a landing, astonishing fans with his briskness and slipperiness.
After his Week 1 score, in any case, Freeman battled as a punt returner.
The Legacy Corridor (Alright) alum wrapped up the season with a add up to of 122 return yards, muffing three punts in his 18 endeavors.
Against TCU, the Horned Frogs were given awesome field position after Freeman let a punt hit the grass, allowing Sonny Dykes’ team to score and get back into what ought to have been a blowout. Against West Virginia, Freeman dropped two punts but was able to drop on one.
The nearby item played 75 extraordinary groups snaps this year with 55 coming in punt return circumstances. Freeman wrapped up the season with a 58.8 uncommon groups review and a 55.1 punt return review, agreeing to Professional Football Center.
