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Oklahoma DL Enters Transfer Portal

Reed Lindsey spent four years at OU and will leave as a grad transfer with two years eligibility remaining.
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Oklahoma DL Enters Transfer Portal
Oklahoma DL Enters Transfer Portal

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Oklahoma has lost another defensive lineman to the transfer portal.

Reed Lindsey, a senior from Clinton, announced Wednesday via Twitter he had entered the transfer portal.

“I am forever grateful for the chance to wear the uniform that so many greats wore before me, and so many great will wear after me,” Lindsey wrote. “You have no idea how much that means to a kid who spent his childhood dreaming of taking the field for the Sooners.

“I’d like to thank coach (Calvin) Thibodeaux for taking a chance on me and coach (Brent) Venables for taking over the team and laying the foundation that will continue to win championships and build great men. I owe many of my most important relationships to the University of Oklahoma.”

The 6-foot-4, 268-pound Lindsey, a defensive end who has played in two games in his four years at OU (Kansas in 2020 and Western Carolina in 2021), enters the portal as a grad transfer and is immediately eligible to play in 2023.

A walk-on in the 2019 recruiting class, he still has two years eligibility remaining.

As a recruit, Lindsey made the 2018 Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State team and was named District 4A-1 Defensive Player of the Year with 90 tackles, 23 tackles for loss, eight sacks, three interceptions, three forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries as a senior.

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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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