Lincoln Riley: Theo Wease Will Miss 'At Least Half the Season,' Other Sooners Miss Tulane Game

The Sooners' junior wide receiver sustained an injury in practice this week; Drake Stoops, Jordan Kelley also sat out; Andrew Raym returned and got some late snaps.

John E. Hoover | Sep 4, 2021

Lincoln Riley: Theo Wease Will Miss 'At Least Half the Season,' Other Sooners Miss Tulane Game /

NORMAN — Oklahoma wide receiver Theo Wease will miss “at least half the season,” head coach Lincoln Riley said after Saturday’s 40-35 win over Tulane.

SI Sooners reported on Wednesday that Wease would miss OU’s first few games due to a lower leg injury, and Riley confirmed that Saturday.

“We’ll see how it plays out,” Riley said.

The Sooners’ offense was uneven in the season-opening victory and might have been better with Wease.

Drake Stoops, another starting wide receiver from last season, also missed the game for undisclosed reasons.

So did defensive tackle Jordan Kelley.

Andrew Raym, a sophomore who was expected to start at center as the Sooners try to replace Creed Humphrey, sat idle as Robert Congel got the start and played deep into the game.

“Medical reasons,” Riley said of Raym. “Had the miss a good amount of practice time and he was battling with Congel anyway. We got him back here at the end of the week and we played him a little bit there in the second half.”

Published Sep 4, 2021

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.