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Local Oklahoma Target Announces Decision Date

One of the top prospects in the Sooner State is set to make his college decision soon, with OU firmly in the mix.
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Local Oklahoma Target Announces Decision Date
Local Oklahoma Target Announces Decision Date

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Alexander Shieldnight, a 3-star edge rusher from Wagoner, OK, released his commitment date on Friday. 

The Oklahoma target will announce his decision on Nov. 10, at Wagoner's football stadium ahead of the Bulldogs game against Broken Bow (OK). 

Shieldnight is one of the top 10 players in Oklahoma and one of the top 21 edge rushers in the 2025 class, according to Rivals.

Listed at 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds, Shieldnight holds offers from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Tennessee and others. Recently, a handful of recruiting sites have placed predictions that the in-state edge rusher will commit to OU.

Shieldnight would be a big addition to the Sooners' 2025 recruiting class, which currently has one other defensive line commit in Lee's Summit North (MO) product Ka'Mori Moore.

Earning a pledge from another one of the top players in the state would continue Brent Venables' impressive run of local recruiting. In the 2024 and 2025 classes alone, Venables has earned commitments from 12 recruits (scholarship and walk-ons) who currently play OK Preps football. 

Earlier this season, Shieldnight broke Wagoner High School's career sacks record, an impressive feat for a player who still has his entire senior year ahead of him. Shieldnight is the latest in an impressive line of defenders to hail from Wagoner, as Detroit Lions linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez also played for the Bulldogs before attending Oklahoma State.

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Randall Sweet
RANDALL SWEET

Randall is a recruiting analyst and staff writer at AllSooners focusing primarily on OU Football and the recruiting trail. Working as a journalist, Randall has covered the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and high school sports across the state. A 2022 University of Oklahoma graduate, Randall hails from Lubbock, TX. While in college, Sweet wrote for the OU Daily in addition to working with Sooner Sports Pad and OU Nightly. Following his time at OU, Sweet served as the Communications Coordinator at Visit Oklahoma City before leaving to join the team at AllSooners. The West Texas native has bylines in the Norman Transcript and is a Staff Writer for Inside the Thunder. Randall holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. 

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