Caleb Williams Announced as Oklahoma's Starting Quarterback

True freshman led the rally over Texas last week and gets the start over Spencer Rattler for this week's game against TCU.

John E. Hoover|

NORMAN — Seven games into his college football career, Caleb Williams has taken over the starting job as Oklahoma’s quarterback.

Williams was announced as the Sooners’ starter just minutes before kickoff of OU’s home game on Saturday night against TCU.

He's the first Oklahoma true freshman to start at QB since current receivers coach Cale Gundy inn 1990.

The freshman from Washington, DC, electrified the fan base with his performance off the bench in last week’s 55-48 victory over Texas in Dallas. He ran for 88 yards and a touchdown and threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns in leading the Sooners back from a 28-7 deficit.

It’s expected that Spencer Rattler — who is in full uniform, went through pregame warm-ups, and took his place at the coin toss as one of OU’s team captains — will play for the Sooners at some point against the Horned Frogs.

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Published Oct 16, 2021

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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