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Oklahoma's New Wide Receivers Coach Signs 2023 WR/DB Recruit – His Son

Emmett Jones achieves "a dream come true" as he signs with the Sooners out of Lubbock Cooper High School.
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Oklahoma's New Wide Receivers Coach Signs 2023 WR/DB Recruit – His Son
Oklahoma's New Wide Receivers Coach Signs 2023 WR/DB Recruit – His Son

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Oklahoma added another intriguing prospect to the 2023 recruiting class on Friday.

This one has family ties.

Emmett Jones, a wide receiver/defensive back from Cooper High School in Lubbock, TX, signed to play for the Sooners — and his dad, new wideouts coach Emmett Jones.

The elder Jones previously coached at Texas Tech, and that’s one of the schools, along with Kansas (his dad’s previous coaching stop) and Houston that had shown interest in the younger Jones.

In an interview with the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Jones called it “a dream come true to be able to play college football, and I’ve been chasing this since I was in, like, seventh grade.

“To be with my dad at Oklahoma and go play with him and the rest of the staff, Coach Venables — I just thank them for giving me the opportunity. I’m ready to go up there and show ‘em what I can do.”

It is believed the 6-foot, 175-pound Jones will be a preferred walk-on at OU.

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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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