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Brent Venables Updates Oklahoma's Injury Situation for Saturday's SMU Game

Several Sooners went down with injure in last week's opener against Arkansas State.

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NORMAN — Oklahoma coach Brent Venables is unable to offer much of an update on players injured in Saturday’s 73-0 win over Arkansas State.

Senior wide receiver Drake Stoops, senior quarterback Davis Beville and sophomore linebacker Dasan McCullough all went down with various ailments.

During his weekly news conference on Monday at the OU Stadium Club, Venables was asked to provide a little clarity towards their availability for this week’s 5 p.m. game against SMU.

“Don't know anything different today,” Venables said. “I don't have any idea whether or not those guys will be available.

“Dasan, we worried initially might be a high (ankle) sprain component and doesn't look like that's the case at all.

“And Drake was ready to go back in the game on Saturday.

“Davis, yeah, he might be another week or so. The issue for him is ankle sprain, probably a high component there.”

The Sooners and Mustangs meet Saturday night at Memorial Stadium in a non-conference game that was originally scheduled to be the two-time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs, but was altered after OU joined the SEC.

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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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