Oklahoma Lands 2023 Juco Edge Rusher

Laine Jenkins is a late addition to the '23 class who visited OU over the weekend, got a scholarship offer and liked what he saw.

John E. Hoover | May 16, 2023

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Oklahoma has added to its 2023 recruiting class.

Amid a flurry of late scholarship offers, junior college edge rusher Laine Jenkins has committed to the Sooners. He made the announcement Tuesday after taking his official visit over the weekend.

Jenkins is a 6-6, 255-pound edge prospect from Butler County College in El Dorado, KS. He had offers from Indiana, Iowa State and Kansas before landing the OU offer on his visit.

Originally from Willowbrook, IL, Jenkins wasn’t a high-profile recruit at defensive end or tight end coming out of Neuqua Valley High School in the class of 2021 and wasn’t rated by 247 Sports or Rivals after playing just one season (2022) in junior college.

Published May 16, 2023

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.