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Oklahoma Players Wrap Up NFL Combine Workouts in Indianapolis

Safety Delarrin Turner-Yell and kicker Gabe Brkic finish a busy week for the Sooners.
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Oklahoma Players Wrap Up NFL Combine Workouts in Indianapolis
Oklahoma Players Wrap Up NFL Combine Workouts in Indianapolis

Oklahoma had a light day Sunday as the NFL Scouting Combine concluded in Indianapolis.

Safety Delarrin Turner-Yell and kicker Gabe Brkic wrapped up the week by working out for NFL personnel inside Lucas Oil Stadium. They also spent the week interviewing with both media and NFL teams.

Turner-Yell, who was fifth on the OU defense with 52 tackles despite missing three games with injury, ran an official 4.47 seconds in the 40, then posted a 122-inch broad jump. His 40 time ranked 10th among safeties. Turner-Yell, a senior from Hempstead, TX, measured 5-foot-10 and 197 pounds.

Brkic, a junior from Chardon, OH, wasn’t among the few kickers who did the usual combine workouts, but he did display his kicking skills for NFL clubs.

Brkic made 57-of-69 field goals in his OU career before declaring early for the NFL Draft. He also made 159-of-160 PATs, with his only miss coming in the Alamo Bowl last season. Last season Brkic made 20-of-26 field goals and was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award while earning midseason All-America honors.

OU had 11 players invited to this year's combine, tied with Alabama for the second most of any team (Georgia had 14).

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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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