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Oklahoma Lands Transfer Portal Offensive Line Commitment

The Sooners need help on the offensive line, and brought in one of the best from Miami-Ohio in Caleb Shaffer.

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Oklahoma has begun addressing its 2023 needs on the offensive line with a pledge  Tuesday via the transfer portal.

The Sooners landed a commitment from Caleb Shaffer, a graduate transfer from Miami University in Ohio. Shaffer made the announcement on Twitter after visiting the OU campus.

Shaffer, from Carmel, IN, has loads of experience, starting all 12 games for the RedHawks in 2022 and all 13 games in 2021, earning Academic All-Mid American Conference honors last year. He played in all three Miami games in 2020, and played in 12 games in 2019, including the final seven as a starter at guard.

In 2022, the 6-foot-5, 333-pound Shaffer — whose coach at Miami was former OU offensive line coach James Patton — was third on the team with 717 offensive snaps, according to Pro Football Focus.

He graded out at 68.2 on pass blocking this season (second among Miami offensive linemen) and 58.7 on run blocking (second).

Caleb Shaffer and James Patton
Caleb Shaffer and James Patton / Miami University Athletics
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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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