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Oklahoma Coach Brent Venables Updates Dillon Gabriel, Jalil Farooq Injury Status

Both Sooners left the game Saturday with what appeared to be head injuries in OU's 31-24 victory at BYU.

John E. Hoover

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NORMAN — Oklahoma coach Brent Venables on Monday issued a brief update on the injury status of his quarterback and top wide receiver.

Dillon Gabriel, the Sooners’ award-winning QB, was injured late in the first half of OU’s 31-24 win last Saturday at BYU. Farooq was hit hard on a fourth-quarter reception that clinched the game on a throw from Gabriel’s backup, Jackson Arnold.

Both players seemed to suffer head injuries, although OU has not disclosed the severity of those.

OU hosts TCU this week in the regular-season finale.

“Feel like both those guys will, if they continue to progress throughout the week, that they’ll be available this weekend,” Venables said.

OU and TCU kick off at 11 a.m. Friday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

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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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