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Another Oklahoma OL Accepts Invitation to NFL's Senior Bowl

The Sooners' starter at right tackle for most of the last two years has been widely project as a first-round pick in next year's NFL Draft.

John E. Hoover

Another Oklahoma OL Accepts Invitation to NFL's Senior Bowl
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Another Oklahoma lineman is one step closer to his dream.

Tyler Guyton, a junior offensive tackle for the Sooners this season, has accepted an invitation to play in the Reese’s Senior Bowl.

The announcement was made Friday on social media.

Guyton, who began his college football career at TCU before transferring to OU, has opted out of the Sooners’ Alamo Bowl game against Arizona on Dec. 28 in San Antonio. He's the second OU lineman to accept an invite to the Senior Bowl — the premier postseason collegiate showcase operated by NFL team personnel, where players practice all week under instruction from NFL coaching staffs — after center Andrew Raym took his last week. 

The 6-foot-7, 328-pound Guyton started out at TCU as a tight end, but quickly transitioned to offensive line. In two seasons at OU, Guyton was the Sooners’ starting right tackle.

Oklahoma OL Accepts Senior Bowl Invite

He played 401 offensive snaps in 2022 and 663 in 2023, according to data compiled by Pro Football Focus.

This season, Guyton started nine of the Sooners’ first 10 games, but then sustained an injury and wasn’t able to assume his starting role as redshirt freshman Jacob Sexton took over the right tackle spot over the last three games.

Guyton has been widely projected as a first-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft because of his length and his athleticism. Those traits showed particularly in pass blocking, where he graded out at 73.0, according to PFF (his run-blocking grade was 60.5, and his overall offensive grade was 63.7).

In 355 pass-blocking snaps, he allowed zero quarterback sacks, three hits and 12 total pressures, per PFF.

Guyton, from Manor, TX, made five starts and played in 10 games as a sophomore at OU in 2022, and nine starts in 10 games as a junior in 2023, when he earned honorable mention All-Big 12 honors.

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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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