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Oklahoma LB Danny Stutsman Lands on Lott Watch List

The Sooners' senior linebacker has a path to landing himself among the school's top 10 tacklers in history with another good season in 2024.
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Oklahoma linebacker Danny Stutsman
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Watch List Season has started early for Oklahoma. 

Senior linebacker Danny Stutsman is on the initial 2024 watch list for the Lott IMPACT Trophy, the award committee announced Thursday on social media.

Stutsman received All-American and All-Big 12 recognition last season as he led the Sooners with 104 total tackles. 

Stutsman, from Windermere, FL, also averaged 1.33 tackles for loss per game during the 2023 regular season, which ranked No. 15 nationally. His 18 total TFLs was the most at OU since 2015, when Eric Striker had 19.

In 2022, Stutsman also led the Big 12 and was ranked in the top five nationally with 125 total tackles.

Stutsman gave Sooner Nation some good news in January when he announced he was returning to Norman for his senior season.

With 266 career tackles, Stutsman has a shot at finishing his career in OU’s top 10 all time (Kevin Murphy, 1981-85, ranks No. 10 in OU history with 353 tackles).

The Lott IMPACT Trophy is named for former USC Trojan All-American Ronnie Lott and goes to college football’s best defensive player in both character and performance. The Lott uses IMPACT as an acronym for Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN 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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