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Oklahoma Lands Commitment from 2027 DE Zane Rowe

The Sooners landed their second commitment of the day on Sunday, but this one is also OU's first in the class of 2027.

John E. Hoover

Zane Rowe and Miguel Chavis
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Oklahoma picked up another commitment from Saturday’s Red /White Game on Sunday afternoon — the Sooners’ second of the day.

This one, however, was a high school prospect — OU’s first in the Class of 2027.

Zane Rowe, a 6-foot-5, 225-pound defensive end from Denton (TX) Guyer High School, told On3 recruiting insider Hayes Fawcett Sunday night that he’s pledged to the Sooners.

Rowe was one of more than 100 prospects to attend the annual Spring Game on Saturday afternoon.

Earlier Sunday, OU got a commitment from former SMU center Branson Hickman via the NCAA Transfer Portal.

Rowe is teammates with new Guyer quarterback and long-time OU pledge Kevin Sperry. Sperry played last year in Midwest City at Carl Albert High School and helped lead the Titans to another state championship but transferred to Guyer earlier this spring.

OU has 13 commitments in the class of 2025 and one (running back Jonathan Hatton) in the class of 2026. Now the Sooners have begun in earnest filling out their 2027 class, which consists of high school freshmen.

Rowe was a MaxPreps Freshman All-American who plays both football and baseball at Guyer.

Rowe currently has 22 offers, but picked OU over the likes of Arkansas, Georgia, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, Texas A&M and others.

Rowe attended the Brent Venables Elite Camp last summer as well.

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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.