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Former Oklahoma Kicker Announces New Home

Gavin Marshall, who was injured most of last season and couldn't compete for the starting job, announced in March he was entering the transfer portal.

John E. Hoover

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables and kicker Gavin Marshall (46)
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables and kicker Gavin Marshall (46) / BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY
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Former Oklahoma kicker Gavin Marshall has found a new home.

Marshall, a redshirt freshman last season from Frisco, TX, announced Tuesday he has signed to play football for the Maryland Terrapins.

Marshall will have four years of eligibility remaining.

Marshall appeared in two games for the Sooners last season, recording two made PATs against Arkansas State and a touchback against Tulsa. 

Marshall was a walk-on at OU in the 2022 recruiting class. He competed for the starting job with 2022 and 2023 starter Zach Schmit, but was injured much of last season and couldn't compete.

"He has (been in the mix). He's been hurt most of the year, unavailable," Brent Venables said at a midweek press conference in November. 

Marshall was the second OU kicker to transfer out of Norman after the 2023 season, joining Atoka, OK, product Redi Mustafaraj.

Over the offseason, the Sooners added talented freshman kicker Liam Evans from Moore, OK, who comes to Oklahoma as an early enrollee, as well as Florida State transfer Tyler Keltner, who who had a strong career at East Tennessee State. Those two will compete with Schmit this season.

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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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