Oklahoma Freshmen: Getting a Jump on College Football — QB Nick Evers

There may or may not be an urgency for Evers to play in 2022, but he has the maturity and physical talent to be ready whenever he's called.

John E. Hoover | Jan 25, 2022

Editor’s Note: Oklahoma welcomes 17 freshmen (so far) in the 2022 recruiting class. This is Part 3 of a 10-part series introducing Oklahoma’s early enrollees in the 2022 recruiting class.

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QB Nick Evers

6-3, 188

Flower Mound, TX

247 Sports: 4-star, No. 165 overall, No. 10 QB

Rivals: 4-star, No. 239 overall, No. 4 dual-threat QB

Background: With Spencer Rattler (2019) and Caleb Williams (2021) in tow, Lincoln Riley never gave much thought to recruiting a quarterback in the 2022 class. Brent Venables and Jeff Lebby changed that thinking immediately when they went after the DFW product. Lebby recruited Evers at Ole Miss before Evers committed to Florida, but when the Gators fired Dan Mullen, Evers was back on the market — and may be the perfect quarterback for Venables’ first class.

2022 Projection: Williams still hasn’t officially declared his transfer destination (or even if he’s actually leaving, through it certainly appears that way), and it’s still not clear what USC transfer Jaxson Dart will do. UCF transfer Dillon Gabriel is already in Norman via the portal and is working out with the team. Backups Ralph Rucker and Micah Bowens are currently scheduled to come back in 2022, but there's plenty of time for the depth chart to shake out. Evers has said he wouldn’t mind redshirting as a true freshman since that’ll give him a chance to learn and grow at a manageable pace. Evers has the makeup and the talent to quarterback Oklahoma. He’ll likely have to wait his turn, but he’s mature enough and skilled enough to climb into the backup role in 2022.

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Meet Oklahoma's 2022 Early Enrolees

Sunday, Jan. 23: WR Nicholas Anderson
Monday, Jan. 24: RB Jovantae Barnes
Tuesday, Jan. 25: QB NICK EVERS
Wednesday, Jan. 26: WR Jayden Gibson
Thursday, Jan. 27: TE Kaden Helms
Friday, Jan. 28: LB Jaren Kanak
Saturday, Jan. 29: LB Kip Lewis
Sunday, Jan. 30: TE Jason Llewellyn
Monday, Jan. 31: LB Kobie McKinzie
Tuesday, Feb. 1: DB Robert Spears-Jennings

Published Jan 25, 2022

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.