• 2 years ago
Oklahoma QB commit Michael Hawkins signs with the Sooners.
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00:00 How's it going everybody? Randall Sweet, All Sooners.com, here to talk more about OU's 2024
00:05 signing class. I'm going to talk about Michael Hawkins, the four-star QB commit that OU's got
00:09 in this 2024 class. Now, Hawkins again is about six foot three from Emerson High School in the
00:16 Dallas area. He used to actually play at Allen High School with Devon Mitchell. Those two were
00:22 teammates, but moved over to Emerson High School. Actually just led Emerson on a pretty impressive
00:27 run through the Texas High School State Playoffs. He put up some impressive stats and led a much
00:31 younger school to some victories over some impressive, very solidified Texas High School
00:37 State programs. Put up some crazy numbers on the way. And again, he really showed off kind of some
00:42 of the skills we already knew that he had. Good decision maker, you know, really knowing when to
00:47 push the ball downfield with his arm, knowing when to tuck it and run and use his legs. And I think
00:52 that in addition to the mobility, you know, kind of as good of a runner as he proved to be, he also
00:58 showed that he's really good at delivering an accurate pass while he's on the run. And again,
01:03 if you go back to his time with Devon Mitchell, I think that that's something that he was really
01:06 good at then, kind of scrambling around, making something happen and then finding the open guy.
01:10 And I think that he showed that again in the Texas High School Playoffs this year. Now,
01:15 I mentioned the mobility. While I don't think that his mobility was ever thought to be an issue,
01:19 I think he did show during the Texas State Playoffs in this season that he's a much more
01:24 mobile quarterback than people were expecting him to be. And again, while he's not Lamar Jackson out
01:29 here, he is a guy that can still threaten defenses with his legs in addition to having the good arm
01:35 strength and the really nice accuracy and touch that you'd want and that you'd expect from a
01:38 four-star quarterback. I think that being an OU legacy is also important for Inventables and
01:43 the company. And I think that it was really big for them to keep him in this class after Jeff Levy
01:49 left for Mississippi State.