Oklahoma Makes Top Five For 4-Star Safety Marvin Burks

Burks is rated the No. 25 safety in the 2023 recruiting class by 247Sports composite rankings.

John E. Hoover | Jul 11, 2022

Oklahoma Makes Top Five For 4-Star Safety Marvin Burks /

Saint Louis defensive back Marvin Burks is going to play in the SEC. But will it be for Oklahoma, or a current SEC school?

Burks announced his top five schools on Monday afternoon, and ranks OU alongside Texas A&M, Missouri, LSU and Ole Miss.

Burks is a 4-star safety from Cardinal Ritter College Prep School. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Burks is rated by the 247 Sports Composite as the No. 25 safety in the nation and the No. 275 overall prospect, while Rivals rates him as the No. 11 safety in the nation and the No. 186 overall player.

Burks has 28 total offers, including Arkansas, Florida, Iowa State, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon, Penn State, Tennessee, USC, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin, among others.

He took his official visit to OU on June 16, just two weeks after visiting Ole Miss and one day before visiting A&M. His most recent visit (June 24) was at Missouri.

Published Jul 11, 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.