Versatile Oklahoma Lineman Is Information Seeker Looking For More Ways To Succeed

NORMAN — Troy Everett, Oklahoma's redshirt sophomore guard, is a self-described homebody.

"I like hanging out," he said Monday after practice. "I'm not a big going out kind of guy."

Everett enjoys listening to music and drinking coffee and he treats himself to both on a regular basis.

"I love drinking coffee," he said. "So that's my biggest thing."

His go-to coffee spot? Everett doesn't have one.

"Oh, I don't like spending money," he said. "I'm cheap."

He'd rather splurge on a big box of donuts ("I'm a glazed kind of guy") to go with the Keurig coffee maker in his room.

And how does he take his coffee?

"It depends on the day. It depends how I feel," he said. "Good day, if I'm feeling like I earned a little treat, I'll pour some creamer in there, maybe a little sugar. The after that, it might just be a little creamer, might be black, I don't know."

Everett never drinks it before the Sooners play.

"I save it for after the game," he said. "It's my reward. That's what I look forward to."

His musical tastes vary, everything from Taylor Swift to Metallica to rap music.

"It can go anything," he said. "It just depends on the mood. Shout out to my mom and dad for that one."

Everett, a 6-foot-3, 294-pound transfer from Appalachian State, also likes to gather information, the kind that will help him become a better offensive lineman.

"That's always been my thing," he said Monday after practice. "I love talking to the older guys, like (Andrew) Raym, McKade (Mettauer), Tyler (Guyton), Walter (Rouse), it don't matter who you are. All those guys. I stay after and talk to the D-Linemen.

"If you have information, I want to know. I'm trying to learn as much as I can. So if I'm going against you on defense and you hit me with a move, I'm going to ask 'what did you do right here?' I'm trying to learn as much as I can. I don't care who you are, I'm going to ask you a question on what happened to try to get better."

With Everett playing a bigger role, OU improved to 4-0 on the season with a 20-6 victory at Cincinnati on Saturday. The Sooners climbed two spots to No. 16 in the AP Top 25.

According to Pro Football Focus data, Everett played 65 of 75 snaps against the Bearcats, who bottled up the Sooners' run game in the first half. OU, though, found more success on the ground in the second half and put together two long scoring drives to pull away.

"I think we handled it pretty good. They were a great D-Line, I'm not going to take anything away from 'em," Everett said. "I think there were some things that we did that we could do better, obviously, from the whole group, all three phases of the ball. I think offensive line wise we had our moments and so, but I think we handled ourselves pretty well against a good D-Line.

“I think it was just a matter of we just went out there … I think there was just some finish … the o-line, we were doing great. All strain. I think there’s just some stuff we gotta correct in the film room. That comes with it.”

Everett, who started six games at center for Appalachian State in 2022, has increased his value by playing guard for Oklahoma. His reps have increased since replacing starter Savion Byrd at left guard early in the SMU game.

Byrd missed the Cincinnati game with an injury.

“It’s great for me because I get to learn both positions," he said. "Coming in, I’m still kind of the new guy, learning everything. It’s still fun. It definitely has its moment where sometimes it can be a challenge. Other times its very fun. I like to look at it more as an opportunity though.”

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