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 Draft Scout College Football Player News: Oklahoma State
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  Now a super-senior in his fifth year as a player, Martin is ready to follow Wallace's path to the NFL. In fact, one of the reasons he picked OSU last year was its knack for getting receivers to the next level lately. Sanders has seen unique skills in Martin that will help the Cowboys this season. "He does everything well, but one thing he really does well is go get the ball at its high point," Sanders said. "His vertical is phenomenal. He'll make any diving catch, just like Tylan would. I can't really compare Tay and Tylan together, because they're two different receivers, but at the same time, they're both great receivers. Tay is great at securing the catch, whether it's going up to high-point the ball, getting low and scooping or diving or anything. "Tay is great. If he keeps pushing and keeps getting better, it's only gonna go uphill for him." - Daily Oklahoman

Sr/2022 WR Tay Martin, Oklahoma State
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  Oklahoma State quarterback Spencer Sanders knows his security blanket is gone. Those long throws down the sideline that would almost always be caught by Tylan Wallace - now a Baltimore Raven - won't be there this year. "I ain't gonna lie, that's a nice little handkerchief to keep in your pocket," Sanders said with a smile at Big 12 Media Days last month. "That's one you don't want to let go, but everything comes to an end." So, after two years as the starting quarterback with Wallace as his right-hand man, Sanders will be looking at a new face in the most important receiver position in the OSU offense. Enter Tay Martin. As the Cowboys open preseason camp on Friday morning with the first practice of the season, Martin will look to excel in his new role.

A year ago at this time, Martin was at Washington State, facing a year with no football, since the Pac-12 hadn't yet determined if it would have a season because of the pandemic. So Martin bolted, and found a school closer to his Houma, Louisiana, home, landing in Stillwater in mid-August. A gifted receiver with good size at 6-foot-3 and 186 pounds, Martin looked like he might fight for playing time early, but his opportunities were few and far between. "Tay hadn't been in shape until January - for us, he hadn't been in shape," OSU coach Mike Gundy said. "So you're trying to play in a fast-paced offense, you're playing at a position that requires a lot of thinking and route-adjustment, based on what we do offensively. When you're tired, your thinking is not good. "He's competitive. He's tough. He loves to play football and he's bought into our system. That's why I think he's gonna play good." - Daily Oklahoman

Sr/2022 WR Tay Martin, Oklahoma State
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  While Bowman has many of the intangibles you want as a quarterback - a strong arm, high IQ, the grit and confidence to play the position - both coaches interviewed by MLive acknowledged his limitations. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound quarterback is a pure pocket passer. While his arm strength is the foundation of his game, mobility is not. In 19 games at Texas Tech, Bowman attempted just 46 carries for negative-9 yards. And it plagued him in the new Texas Tech offense under Wells, when he wasn't injured. "Part of the offense he was very comfortable with, because it had some Air Raid principles to it, which he was doing with us and what he did with Kliff," Alexander said. "But all of the other stuff - giving him the read-to-run option, that ain't him. That's a wasted rep. But no, sitting in the pocket, spreading the ball around - he's as good as they get doing that stuff." - Ann Arbor News

rSr/2025 QB Alan Bowman, Oklahoma State
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  Malcolm Rodriguez cracked a little smile and leaned in toward the microphone. "Two thirty-five," he said confidently on Thursday afternoon at Big 12 Media Days at AT&T Stadium. Two years ago, Rodriguez played linebacker for Oklahoma State weighing just over 200 pounds, so you can understand why he takes pride in his new weight. His move from safety to linebacker was out of necessity back then. Safety was stocked with talent and linebacker was thin. The move was surprising at first, but it made sense when you saw Rodriguez on the field, even as an undersized linebacker.

But now, he's got the bulk to better take on blockers and ball carriers alike, while maintaining the speed that made him stand out at the position in the first place. It all adds up to a big score for Rodriguez, who will be a focal point of the Cowboy defense once again this season. The biggest reason for Rodriguez's added weight can be attributed to his willingness to do the work that strength coach Rob Glass asks of him. - Daily Oklahoman

rSr/2022 ILB Malcolm Rodriguez, Oklahoma State
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  While his college football resume is out there for all to see, Alan Bowman remains the wild card in the upcoming Michigan quarterback competition in preseason camp. Bowman, a graduate transfer from Texas Tech where he made 16 starts and completed 67% of his passes for 5,260 yards, 33 touchdowns and 17 interceptions in three years, will challenge Cade McNamara, Michigan's starting quarterback coming out of spring practice, and freshman J.J. McCarthy. McNamara, who is 6-foot-1, 205 pounds, made one start last season and threw for 425 yards and five touchdowns and had no interceptions. He also rushed for a score. McCarthy is a five-star recruit who enrolled early and participated in spring practice.

Lavelle Durant, a quarterback trainer who operates Seattle-based LD Elite Training, has been working with the 6-foot-3, 216-pound Bowman since just before his senior year at Grapevine (Texas) High. The two worked out about a month ago, and Durant expects to get in another training session with him before preseason camp in August. "He's coming to Michigan to play right now," Durant told The Detroit News. "He's a great leader. He's gonna win the locker room over, and I think when you're coming from so far away from home, that's the No. 1 thing to do is to grasp that locker room and get these guys to believe in you. "He's really good at leading by example. He's definitely mature and has a nice leadership aspect to him with having three years of experience already. If we go back and look at his Texas Tech film, he's definitely bringing a tremendous amount of toughness and a guy that's not afraid to play while he's banged up." - Detroit News

rSr/2025 QB Alan Bowman, Oklahoma State
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  Spring football practice allowed Oklahoma State to address some of the major offseason questions hovering over the program. Here's a look at three big questions that the Cowboy offense had a chance to answer in spring, starting with this: Is Brennan Presley the real deal? All signs point to yes. Presley has bulked up some since arriving last summer, which will help him withstand the increase in contact he's sure to take on as a slot receiver who will be frequently targeted. Offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn compared the second-year player from Bixby to former Cowboy Josh Stewart, who had 101 receptions in 2012. Presley might not be at the 100-reception mark yet, but he could be working his way toward such numbers. He showed in the spring game that he's going to be a regular target for quarterback Spencer Sanders.

Presley has the ball skills and the elusiveness after the catch to be a big-time playmaker at the college level. Tay Martin will be the top option on the outside, and will provide good balance to a receiver group that is without a proven star for the first time in a few years. Presley is a different type of playmaker at slot than what the Cowboys had with Dillon Stoner, and Presley showed a glimpse of what he can be in the Cheez-It Bowl against Miami. "The speed of college is a lot faster than the speed of high school," Presley said last month. "The more you get reps, the more you understand things and get a knack for what certain things are. The more I got reps in the bowl game, the more I caught onto things." - Daily Oklahoman

rSr/2025 WR Brennan Presley, Oklahoma State
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  LD Brown didn't follow his senior teammates when declaring his plans to take advantage of the extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA due to the pandemic. There was no tweet. No grand announcement. "It was literally kind of last minute on my decision coming back, as well," Brown said. "… It was kind of like, 'Oh well, you know now." Flying under the radar is how his college career has been at Oklahoma State. That is, until last season when a hobbled Chuba Hubbard thrust Brown into a bigger role out of the backfield. He suddenly went from an afterthought during his first few seasons in Stillwater - rushing for a combined 636 yards on 101 carries with six touchdowns over three seasons - to the incumbent for the starting role this fall. "It's just unfinished business, that was really the thing," the super senior tailback said. "My mindset was I could come back to this, because I missed three games last year, and to me it was just like I missed some stuff out there." - Stillwater Press

rSr/2022 RB LD Brown, Oklahoma State
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  According to coach Mel Tucker, the Spartans' leading rusher from two seasons ago has been impressive. "l like what Elijah is doing," Tucker said last week. "He's gained weight, he's gotten stronger, he looks more explosive. He's hitting the hole with velocity, and keeping his feet moving on contact and he's falling forward for two. He's running with authority." That's a bit of a revelation considering how the 2020 season played out for Collins. He entered the year expecting to be Michigan State's primary ball carrier. Instead, he became a seldom-used extra piece to a running back group that never really got rolling. The numbers showed how poorly the Spartans ran the ball, averaging just more than 91 yards over seven games. And the fact Collins managed only 41 carries for 90 yards made the lack of production even tougher to deal with. After all, Collins had emerged as the Spartans' top back in 2019, gaining 988 yards and scoring five touchdowns as he recorded three 100-yard rushing games - a career-high 192 vs. Western Michigan, 170 vs. Illinois and 109 vs. Rutgers - to become the first Spartan freshman to do so since Javon Ringer in 2005. - Detroit News

rSr/2024 RB Elijah Collins, Oklahoma State
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  It's not that Tyler Lacy fell behind. The Oklahoma State defensive end was like countless college football players who got sucked into the vacuum of the COVID-19 pandemic and weren't in ideal shape when fall camp began last August. "COVID was holding us back last year," Lacy said. "We didn't know how COVID was going to affect guys, but now we're getting back in the hang of things, going full speed." Players like Lacy and several others were off track because of the limitations to train during the pandemic. "I can only speak for Oklahoma State, but COVID really set us back with just the routine training," OSU coach Mike Gundy said. "Cardio training, strength and conditioning. The routine. And we're back in routine since January. "Guys are in really good physical condition right now compared to August last year, there wasn't very many guys in shape. So it was really scary as a coach. I didn't know when to push 'em and when to back off. Now, it's easy. I know when to push 'em, because they're all in great shape." - Daily Oklahoman

rSr/2023 DT Tyler Lacy, Oklahoma State
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  Brennan Presley caught fire for the Oklahoma State football team late in his first year on the roster. The 5-foot-8, 170-pound receiver saw an increase in action late in the season that led to his first career touchdown on a jet sweep against Kansas State. That culminated in the Cheez-It Bowl against Miami with six catches for 118 yards and three touchdowns. He won't be filling in the spot left vacant by Tylan Wallace - the Z receiver, which also saw Justin Blackmon and James Washington have success that led to NFL fortunes. However, Presley will run more out of the slot, which could mean even more opportunities than the coveted Z position. "With Presley, he's an inside receiver, so it's always easier to get that guy the football - toss it to him, flip it to him, reverse it to him," said Kasey Dunn, OSU's offensive coordinator and receivers coach. "Inside routes are less intricate than the perimeter receivers, so he's certainly going to be a weapon for us."

The scary notion with what Presley showed late in the season, is how little time he had to prepare for the transition to Division I football due to coming into campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. "If you just play the numbers - repetition-wise, seeing it, watching video - he might have hit that at game five, but we didn't have spring," Cowboy coach Mike Gundy said. "So he played two months - September, October - of catch up, figuring out what's going on, because if you remember in watching our games...he would do things in the game and then like drop the ball. He was in the right spot, but things just move fast. So because he didn't get last spring, he finally started to come on in the end of November and then had a good bowl game - all those reps started adding up." - Stillwater Press

rSr/2025 WR Brennan Presley, Oklahoma State
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  Linebacker Lamont Bishop, a junior-college transfer who joined the program last year, was injured for much of the 2020 season and didn't get a chance to assert himself. Now healthy, the 6-foot-3, 230-pound Bishop is beginning to find his footing in Jim Knowles' defense. He ran a 40-yard dash in the 4.60-second range in the testing period at the end of winter conditioning, and is forcing coaches to notice him. "He's in really good condition now," Gundy said. "It's allowing him to play faster and not think, so you're seeing him use his ability. "We have to find a way to get him on the field. We don't have a lot of guys who can run that fast and weigh that much. At this point, I don't think he's scared of football. We gotta get him out there. He seems to be doing pretty good at this time." - Daily Oklahoman

rSr/2023 OLB Lamont Bishop, Oklahoma State
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  Tre Sterling knew well before the end of the season he would return for another year with Oklahoma State. Sterling took to heart conversations he had with family and former teammates in guiding his quick decision. "I mean it was a pretty easy decision at the end of the season, I knew, I think four games before the Cheez-It Bowl that I was going to come back," Sterling said. " Just hearing from my dad, other people who are in the league like A.J. Green and stuff like that. I'd hear from them and stuff like that and teams talking, the best decision for me was definitely to come back and build my draft stock..."I was just treading unknown waters if I would've left this year and I didn't want to be in that situation and go undrafted, not make a team and something like that. So, I was just going to come back and build my draft stock as much as I can."

So what does Sterling think he can work on to improve his draft stock? "You can always get better as a safety at man coverage - whether it's on tight ends, slots, outside receivers - because I've been in every situation possible," Sterling said. "So just working on man coverage more, working on my breaks out of either middle of the field, flat, curl read, hook zone, stuff like that. "Just working on transition from being still to accelerating and stuff like that. Just doing stuff that the NFL scouts want to see." - Stillwater Press

rSr/2022 SS Tre Sterling, Oklahoma State
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  This spring wasn't the first time Sills had met new OSU offensive lineman Danny Godlevske, who transferred from Miami of Ohio. Sills grew up in West Virginia and Godlevske in Indianapolis. The two were recruited by some of the same programs - including Miami of Ohio - and went to several of the same camps. "I kind of knew who he was then," Sills said. "When he committed here, I messaged him and was like, congratulations. "Then the first day here, it was like, we're pretty well the same people. He's a hard worker. Puts his head down and you tell him to do something, he does it." Godlevske has slotted in as the starting center for the Cowboys, bringing a veteran feel to a position that would have been lacking in experience without him. "Having a guy like him is a huge boost for everyone else just because of his football sense and being able to pick up the offense so quick," Sills said. "It's been kind of a pick-me-up for everybody else to see somebody come in and pick up the offense that fast and knows it, but at the same time has the football smarts he does. "Then you can see out and see the future of what we could possibly be, depending on what we do every day in practice." - Daily Oklahoman

rSr/2022 C Danny Godlevske, Oklahoma State
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  Sills is an example of how the transfer portal works well and helps players who want a new challenge or a fresh start. Despite the crazy season of Covid, Sills started every game for OSU in 2020, six times at left guard, once at left tackle and four games at right tackle. Sills had made 24 starts for West Virginia but was sidelined by injury much of the 2019 season and already had been granted a sixth year of eligibility when he arrived in Stillwater. So Sills is back for the 2021 season. Sills' description of the portal experience: "I loved it. Loved every second of it. I'm beyond thankful to being in the position I am, for Coach (Gundy) and everybody else giving me the opportunity to play here." Sills even treasures the portal recruiting process, for how it molded him. December was a dead period, so he was not allowed in-person recruiting trips. "The biggest thing for me, it kind of taught me a lot about myself, as far as how to build relationships with people you couldn't necessarily see face to face," Sills said. "I kind of had to go based on what people said and just kind of get a feel for it." - Daily Oklahoman

rSr/2022 OT Josh Sills, Oklahoma State
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  With all 32 NFL teams represented on Thursday at OSU's Pro Day, Jenkins got to show his toughness, his strength and the reasons why he's likely to be the first Cowboy selected in the draft later this month. Jenkins measured in at 6-foot-5 7/8 and 317 pounds, then put on a show in the weight room, bench pressing 225 pounds 36 times. He clocked good times in the agility drills, including a 4.96-second 40-yard dash, and showed his physicality in positional work. He didn't hold back in the post-workout interview, either, when asked what type of player a team would get by drafting him.

"A tough, physical, nasty mother(expletive)," Jenkins said. "A dude that doesn't shy away from hits, a dude that actually wants to get physical, and a dude that's gonna bust his ass." Sometime prior to last season, Jenkins finally tapped into that nasty side that elevated the big, athletic lineman to first-round material. Coaches told him he needed to be more aggressive than in the past. "I took that personally," Jenkins said. "Coming into the year, it paid off for myself, because of what I've done on the field and put on film. It's a big part of who I am and a big part of what I am on the field, because I do believe I'm the best finisher in this draft and that sets me apart from any other O-linemen." - Daily Oklahoman

rSr/2021 OT Teven Jenkins, Oklahoma State
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