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Oklahoma Offers 2023 WR Ashton Cozart

The DFW prospect now has 21 offers, including several from Big 12 schools and several SEC schools.

John E. Hoover

As Ashton Cozart’s recruiting has gained momentum, Oklahoma had been slow to make a scholarship offer.

That changed on Tuesday as OU finally offered Cozart.

Cozart took a campus visit last weekend while attending Lincoln Riley's elite summer camp. Sooner coaches apparently liked what they saw.

Cozart is a 2023 wide receiver from Marcus High School in Flower Mound, TX. He told SI Sooners at a 7-on-7 tournament in March that he had conversations with the OU coaching staff but hadn’t received the offer yet.

Meanwhile, the 6-foot-2, 175-pound Cozart picked up offers from TCU (he called it his dream school), Tennessee, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Florida State, Penn State and Texas A&M. He now holds 21 Division I football offers.

Ashton Cozart (right)
Ashton Cozart (right) :: John E. Hoover / SI Sooners

Cozart said schools wanted to see how his sophomore year went in track, and he’s been blazing so far, even running a 10.74 100 meters.

Cozart is a DFW native who recently returned after growing up in the Seattle area. He played varsity but was slowed by injury during his first two seasons at Kennedy Catholic High School — one of the top teams in the state of Washington — but many expect him to have a big junior year at Marcus.

Ashton Cozart (middle) with Dennis Simmons and Lincoln Riley
Ashton Cozart (middle) with Dennis Simmons and Lincoln Riley / Ashton Cozart via social media

Cozart told SI Sooners he’s been position training with Margin Hooks, a Waco native who became a star receiver at BYU and now trains young receivers in the Metroplex. Hooks has trained several prospects who ended up at Oklahoma, including Marvin Mims, Charleston Rambo and Trejan Bridges.

“He’s been teaching me a lot of good things,” Cozart said.

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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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