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1st team

WR Tay Martin
RG Hunter Woodward
DT Jayden Jernigan
LB Malcolm Rodriguez
CB Jarrick Bernard-Converse
CB Christian Holmes
S Kolby Harvell-Peel
PR Brennan Presley

2nd team

QB Spender Sanders
DE Collin Oliver

3rd team

LG Josh Sills
DE Tyler Lacy
LB Devin Harper
S Jason Taylor II
FLEX D Tanner McCallister
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It's the biggest game in modern OSU history

Ok Cowboy fans, it's game week of the biggest football game in modern OSU history. Let's talk about it. Post your questions, observations, and conversation topics here. We have already seen Baylor up close and personal. You know quite a bit about them. They were missing linebacker Terrel Bernard last time, so adding a potential All Big 12 linebacker into the mix will allow their defense (particularly the run defense) to step up beyond where it was in the first matchup. Both teams have grown and evolved. We know much more about each of them. Ultimately the game will come down to which team plays better, minimizes mistakes, and produces in the redzone. The Cowboys have the better team, but Baylor is very experienced, disciplined, and well-coached.

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Why is Brock Martin returning to Oklahoma State football in 2022? 'I haven’t quite had a good enough year'

Why is Brock Martin returning to Oklahoma State football in 2022? 'I haven’t quite had a good enough year'​

Jacob Unruh
Oklahoman

STILLWATER — Oklahoma State redshirt senior defensive end Brock Martin announced Monday that he is returning next season, taking advantage of an extra year of eligibility.

And the reasoning is pretty simple.

“I haven’t quite had a good enough year to declare for the draft,” Martin said.

With the regular season over, players across the country are beginning to assess their futures. Even with the fifth-ranked Cowboys facing ninth-ranked Baylor in Saturday’s Big 12 Championship game, OSU players are beginning to make their decisions.

But for one of their defensive stalwarts, Martin’s decision is interesting.

The former Oologah star is having a career season. He has career highs in tackles (34), tackles for loss (10.5), sacks (6) and quarterback hurries (6).

He even missed a game this season — the Oct. 2 win over Baylor — with a dislocated elbow.

Still, in Martin’s eyes, it’s not enough.

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“It’s a self-evaluation," Martin said. “You look at some of the guys that have gone and got drafted from here, from other schools, I gotta do some more. I gotta fine-tune some things, fix some things, master a little bit more of my craft and figure out what I’m going to do from there.”

Martin is unlikely to be the only veteran returning.

OSU coach Mike Gundy said this week that eight players who are graduating will return, with most coming on the defensive side of the ball.

“They love it here,” Gundy said.

The only seniors who do not have eligibility remaining for next season on the defense are Malcolm Rodriguez, Devin Harper and Christian Holmes.

Others have yet to announce their decisions.

“Me and Coach Gundy, we had a discussion about it already,” senior safety Tanner McCalister said. “I heard him make some statements, but I’m gonna make a statement eventually.

“And you guys might like it.”


JerryWorld a familiar place to some​

McCalister grew up 42 miles from AT&T Stadium in his hometown Rockwall, Texas.

He looked up to Dallas Cowboys stars like Tony Romo and Terrell Owens. McCalister even played several games throughout his life in the stadium.

So, Saturday is a bit of a homecoming.

“That’d be like playing home for me, at least personally and for a lot of guys that played high school football in Texas,” McCalister said. “It’s going to be exciting playing back in my hometown, where I’m from.”

But for some, the stadium is a new place.

“Never been,” receiver and returner Brennan Presley said.

A former Bixby star, Presley has heard one thing about JerryWorld.

“It’s just really big,” Presley said.

When informed that it seats 80,000 fans and has room for 20,000 more or so, he lit up.

“I have no idea if they would fill all 100,000,” Presley said. “If there’s 100,000 people actually there, then I will be incredibly shocked. I’ve just heard it’s really big with a really big screen.”

Beef, it’s what’s for dinner​

Left guard Josh Sills prefers his steak medium rare, for the record. That’s what he gets with his NIL deal, too.

Sills unveiled Tuesday that he and several other Cowboys — the starting offensive linemen, some defensive linemen, some linebackers and Jaylen Warren — all have a deal with a local company and Wagyu Beef.

Once or twice a month, the group of players get together with the Cowboys supporters and enjoy the prime cut of beef.

“It’s just a lot of fun,” Sills said.

And it’s a dream come true for a guy like Sills, who is 6 foot 6 and 325 pounds.

“I’ve never turned down food — ever,” Sills said. “And I can tell you I never will for the rest of my life, especially steak.”

All I want for Christmas …​

McCalister has one item atop his Christmas list this holiday season.

A Big 12 championship ring.

“I want to put that ring on my finger,” McCalister said. “I want to see what it feels like on my finger. I’m not a ring guy, but I want that one.”

'Different things we can do': Blaine Green becoming a threat as receiver, tight end for Oklahoma State

'Different things we can do': Blaine Green becoming a threat as receiver, tight end for Oklahoma State​

Scott Wright
Oklahoman

STILLWATER — Oklahoma State tight end Logan Carter predicted the future.

He saw true freshman slot receiver Blaine Green — all 6-foot-1 and 218 pounds of him — and made the call.

“I’ve been giving him grief since before the season started,” Carter said, “telling him (offensive coordinator Kasey) Dunn was gonna stick him down at tight end soon.”

Well, it took more than half the season, but the move eventually happened. Over the last few weeks, Green has been playing both slot receiver and tight end, and though he’s about 30 pounds lighter than OSU’s other tight ends, he’s holding up well so far.

As the Cowboys prepare for the Big 12 championship game against Baylor at 11 a.m. Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Green will be a factor in the offensive game plan.

“There’s just different things we can do with him, throwing the ball, than we can with other guys,” said OSU coach Mike Gundy, who compared Green to former receiver Tracy Moore. “He can be more of a slot. He can do some blocking. He can release in the middle of the field, release in the flat. There’s other things we can do with him, based on him being 218 pounds.”

It’s been a difficult year for the Cowboys at tight end. Expected starter Logan Carter missed the first five games of the season after undergoing back surgery in late July, and he hasn’t been himself yet this year.

That thrust Braden Cassity into a starting role, and he was effective, but he suffered an injury four weeks ago and hasn’t returned. Carter got hurt again last week and didn’t play against Oklahoma on Saturday.

Green is a big receiver, but a small tight end, so he’s a unique fit in both positions. And he’s still a true freshman.

“He shows that he’s young sometimes still, whether it’s trying to learn the new position, which is a lot of work, or having to go hit a linebacker or defensive end versus a safety,” Carter said. “But he’s learning, getting better every week.”

The concept is not entirely foreign. Green’s older brother, Seth, is a senior tight end at the University of Houston. Of course, Blaine’s twin brother, Bryson, is still playing receiver for OSU.


Over the last three weeks, since the transition occurred, Green has become a regular target in the passing game. Before the change, Green hadn’t caught more than two passes in a game. In the last three weeks, he has at least three in every game.

He had five catches for 42 yards in Bedlam, with Carter and Cassity both out.

“He gave us some options that we hadn’t had all year,” Gundy said. “He’s practiced there some, but he’s young. He’s immature. We’re maximizing what we can get out of him, but he’s still a freshman. He gave us some options that we hadn’t had in this game based on his athleticism.”

Green had three receptions for 80 yards and a touchdown against TCU three weeks ago, the first big game of his career. Because of his size and athletic ability, Green provides unique matchup difficulties for defenses, based on where he’s lined up.

“He brought in a receiving element that I thought I was gonna be able to provide this year, which I didn’t get to once I was injured, so that’s been a big help,” Carter said. “He’s allowed us to line up in some different formations and go out in different sets, give some different looks and confuse some defenses.”

And defenses have to choose how to cover him, because he’s a tight end in a receiver body.

“He brings quickness from the inside position,” OSU quarterback Spencer Sanders said. “You never see a tight end that can move like that. Blaine’s got a big enough body to be a receiver and a tight end at the same time, so it’s just like, holy crap, there’s a lot of stuff you can do with that. Having him right there creates mismatches and opens lanes.

“You’re not expecting a tight end to run deep and beat either a safety or a linebacker. You’re expecting your safety or linebacker to be faster, but they’re not. It’s a different scenario. So it’s good having him right there.”

Most impressively, Green is handling all the work required to play two positions.


“He goes to two separate meetings every day, takes notes, studies his tail off and he knows both positions,” Sanders said. “For a freshman, you don’t see that. You barely see a freshman on the field at one position, but two positions is phenomenal.

“I think we overlook that a little bit because of his talent, and everybody’s like, ‘Yeah, he can play at this level, because he’s that good.’ But he’s still a freshman doing what he’s doing. I think sometimes that’s overlooked, but I tell him every day, ‘You’re a star. You’re an athlete. You’re gonna go somewhere one day.’”

So Alec, if you didn't ..........

pull the trigger, whoTF did? Did you forget you were specifically told not to discuss the case. Damn, you're really stupid sitting down with Stephie:

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