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Oklahoma lands former Sun Devils kicker via the transfer portal

Josh Plaster, from the DFW area, shared kickoff duties at Arizona State as a true freshman
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Oklahoma lands former Sun Devils kicker via the transfer portal
Oklahoma lands former Sun Devils kicker via the transfer portal

Oklahoma went back to the state of Arizona for another transfer on Tuesday.

Josh Plaster, a punter and kickoff specialist at Arizona State in 2019 and 2020, announced on Twitter that he’ll be taking his talents to Norman.

The Sooners already have both a kickoff man (Gabe Brkic) and a punter (Reeves Mundschau) coming back in 2021 (both are on the current spring roster), but always need additional depth at those positions because of the sheer repetitions.

Plaster, who went to ASU out of Flower Mound, TX, near Fort Worth, was a sophomore backup to punter Michael Turk and kickoff man Logan Tyler. Both are returning to Tempe this season.

Plaster kicked off 30 times with six touchbacks as a true freshman in 2019, but did not record any statistics in 2020.

As a recruit, he was rated as the 40th-best kicker and punter prospect in the class of 2019, according to rankings compiled by Chris Sailer Kicking.

Earlier in the offseason, OU got a transfer from Arizona in offensive lineman Robert Congel.

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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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