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Oklahoma RG Chris Murray Named to Midseason Watch List

The former UCLA transfer has emerged as the Sooners' most reliable offensive lineman over the last two seasons, with 20 consecutive starts at right guard.
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Oklahoma RG Chris Murray Named to Midseason Watch List
Oklahoma RG Chris Murray Named to Midseason Watch List

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Oklahoma senior Chris Murray has been named to the Lombardi Award midseason watch list.

The award, presented by the Rotary Club of Houston, goes annually to the top lineman in college football. Past OU winners include Lee Roy Selmon (1975), Tony Casillas (1985) and Tommie Harris (2003).

Murray, a 6-foot-2, 308-pound senior from Palmdale, CA, plays right guard and is a two-year starter for the Sooners after transferring in 2020. He began his college career at UCLA (he started all 12 games in 2019) and was a key backup at OU in 2020 before taking over the starting job in 2021.

Murray has started the last 20 games at right guard.

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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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