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Oklahoma Lands Commitment from Transfer Kicker

Tyler Keltner was a productive kicker at East Tennessee State before transferring last year to Florida State.

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Oklahoma Lands Commitment from Transfer Kicker
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Oklahoma's special teams efforts got a boost on Thursday.

Tyler Keltner, a graduate transfer kicker from Florida State, announced on Twitter he's committed to the Sooners.

Keltner is a graduate transfer who began his career at East Tennessee State. A Tallahassee, FL, native, he attempted just one PAT for the Seminoles this season, but was a two-time All-Southern Conference kicker before that.

At ETSU, Keltner went 56-for-74 on field goal attempts and made 131-of-131 PATs, which produced 299 career points during his three years at ETSU.

Among his exploits at ETSU, he set the program records for field goals and PATs made and ranks second in school history in career points.

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The Sooners are expected to have an open competition for the kicking job in 2024 as senior Zach Schmit returns from spotty success the last two seasons. Schmit went 12-of-18 on field goals in 2022 and was 15-of-21 in 2023.

The Sooners also signed local high school prospect Liam Evans as a preferred walk-on this year. 

Keltner's .757 career field goal percentage is above the national average, and includes a school-record 54-yard field goal and a 51-yard field goal.

As a freshman, he made a program freshman record 14 field goals and was 27-of-27 on PATs to break program’s freshman record with 69 points scored.

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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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