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Oklahoma Lands 4-Star WR Jaquaize Pettaway

One of the top prospects in Texas picked the Sooners over the Longhorns.
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Oklahoma Lands 4-Star WR Jaquaize Pettaway
Oklahoma Lands 4-Star WR Jaquaize Pettaway

Brent Venables promised a busy July.

The noise only got louder on Wednesday when wide receiver Jaquaize Pettaway verbally committed to Oklahoma over Texas.

Pettaway is a 4-star prospect, according to 247 Sports. The 5-foot-11, 170-pound Pettaway, from Langham Creek High School in Houston, is the No. 4 overall player in Texas and the No. 4 wideout in the nation, per 247 Sports.

According to Rivals, Pettaway is the No. 8 wideout in the nation, No. 10 prospect in Texas and the No. 56 overall recruit in the country.

Pettaway took his official visit to OU on June 3, then visited Ole Miss on June 10 and Texas on June 17.

Pettaway told Rivals the visit to Norman made an impression on him.

"I really liked it," Pettaway told Rivals about his visit. "In my eyes, I liked it, my family liked it. I went with my mom, my aunt and my PawPaw and they all really liked it. One thing that stood out was how they treated me and my family well and how much the staff really put the effort and invested into the people and the players. Not just football, they treat the players like regular people."

He’s the Sooners’ 11th verbal commit of the 2023 class and second wide receiver, joining 6-3, 188-pound 3-star Keyon Brown.

Pettaway’s commitment raised OU’s team ranking from No. 37 to No. 25, per 247 Sports. He is the second-highest-rated recruit in the class, behind quarterback Jackson Arnold, using the 247 Sports player ranking system.

In his first two seasons as a starter, Pettaway caught 105 passes for 1,798 yards and 16 touchdowns while also dominating in track, where he ran the 100 meters in 10.41 seconds (he’s broken 10.5 three times) and the 200 in 20.80.

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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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