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Oklahoma Earns Commitment From Local DB

The Sooners added to their 2024 recruiting class on Sunday afternoon, picking up a standout defender from Norman.
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Oklahoma Earns Commitment From Local DB
Oklahoma Earns Commitment From Local DB

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Norman High School defensive back Dax Noles announced his commitment to Oklahoma on Sunday.

Noles is a versatile athlete who plays both football and baseball for the Tigers. On the gridiron, Noles is a standout safety who is listed at 6-feet tall and 185 pounds. 

Following a solid junior season that earned the Sooners' newest pledge offers from Dartmouth and Navy, Noles attended the Brent Venables Elite Camp over the summer, where he quickly became a favorite amongst the DB coaches and earned a preferred walk-on offer shortly after a strong performance at the camp.

Noles has had an impressive start to his senior year, snagging multiple interceptions, including two against Norman North.

If nothing else, Noles will provide a tireless, athletic and hard-hitting special teams player that can be a solid option on kickoff and punt coverage. As Sooner fans have seen in recent years, however, the OU coaching staff gives walk-on players a chance to earn a role on the field, meaning that Noles could play more than just special teams snaps at some point in his collegiate career. 

Noles joins Ace Hodges and Jacob Jordan as walk-on commits in Oklahoma's 2024 recruiting class. All three of Hodges, Jordan and Noles hold scholarship offers to FBS teams, but decided to take walk-on opportunities in Norman. 

Between scholarship and walk-on pledges, the Sooners are now up to 27 commitments in the 2024 cycle. With a few more scholarship spots still open for Brent Venables and company to utilize, it is very likely that OU will add a few more players in the upcoming class.

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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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