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Oklahoma Adds Transfer TE From Michigan State

Hampton Fay was a quarterback during his in high school days in Texas, but switched positions with the Spartans and now has found a new home with the Sooners.
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Oklahoma Adds Transfer TE From Michigan State
Oklahoma Adds Transfer TE From Michigan State

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Oklahoma has added another offensive piece from the portal.

Hampton Fay, a tight end who began his career as a quarterback at Michigan State, announced Monday night on Twitter his thanks to Brent Venables, Jeff Lebby and Joe Jon Finley for the opportunity and that he was “looking forward to joining” OU football.

Fay spent two seasons with the Spartans in 2021 and 2022 but didn’t get any game action. Fay announced on April 18 that he had entered the NCAA Transfer Portal.

The 6-foot-5, 240-pound Fay went to East Lansing as a 3-star quarterback, according to 247 Sports and Rivals.

He first committed to the Spartans in April 2020 out of All Saints Episcopal School in Fort Worth, TX. He chose Michigan State over Boise State, Boston College, Colorado, Houston, Illinois, Indiana, Ole Miss, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and others.

Fay told the Detroit Free Press he’d always played quarterback coming up, but switched to wide receiver for his sophomore year at Aledo High School. Wanting to play QB in college, he transferred to All Saints, but then suffered a season-ending shoulder surgery three games into his junior year.

He came back strong as a senior, completing 60 percent of his passes for 1,450 yards and 14 touchdowns in just seven games in 2020. In 23 high school games, Fay passed for 2,473 yards and 25 touchdowns and also ran for 293 yards and five touchdowns.

Fay ranked among the top 100 players in Texas as a quarterback, but after graduating early and enrolling at MSU for the spring 2021 semester, he saw no game action that fall and switched positions to tight end.

Fay didn’t play in 2022, but did earn a spot on the Academic All-Big Ten team.

Oklahoma needed to replenish the position after an alarming dearth of tight ends this spring following injuries to sophomores Jason Llewellyn and Kaden Helms.

OU lost senior Brayden Willis to the NFL Draft, as well as former Missouri transfer Daniel Parker, so the Sooners brought back Austin Stogner, a three-year starter who spent his senior year at South Carolina, and added Blake Smith from Texas A&M. Finley was also forced to move walk-on defensive lineman Hayden Bray to offense and also signed walk-on Josh Fanuiel, a basketball player from Division II Cameron University. Smith and Fanuiel each caught a touchdown pass in Saturday’s Red/White Game. 

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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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