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Former Oklahoma DB Announces Transfer Plans

The Sooners' 4-star prospect out of Virginia broke into the starting lineup last season but still decided to enter the transfer portal.
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Former Oklahoma DB Announces Transfer Plans
Former Oklahoma DB Announces Transfer Plans

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A former Oklahoma defensive back has found his new home.

Damond Harmon, who signed with OU out of Richmond, VA, and left last month via the NCAA Transfer Portal, announced Sunday he had chosen to play next at North Carolina A&T.

Harmon made the announcement via Twitter.

The 6-foot, 180-pound Harmon played two seasons for the Sooners in 2021 and 2022. He played seven games as a true freshman and made four tackles. As a sophomore, he played in 11 games with two starts and finished the season with 18 tackles.

His 2022 season included a scary incident in the loss at TCU, when his helmet was struck by a Horned Frog ball carrier’s thigh and left him with a concussion and neck stinger.

Harmon made a season-high five tackles that game, then missed two games before returning to action four weeks later.

At Highland Springs High School, Harmon was a 4-star recruit by 247 Sports and Rivals and a 3-star prospect by ESPN. He signed as part of the ballyhooed 2021 class that included fellow DC-Maryland-Virginia Triangle stars Kelvin Gilliam and Caleb Williams.

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John E. Hoover
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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