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Oklahoma OT Accepts Senior Bowl Invitation

Senior right tackle Wanya Morris graded out as one of Oklahoma's best run blockers in 2022 and has the frame and background to succeed in the NFL.

John E. Hoover

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Check another one off the list for Oklahoma.

It appears certain that senior right tackle Wanya Morris will not be returning to Norman next season as Morris on Wednesday accepted an invitation to play in the Reese’s Senior Bowl.

Earlier in the day, Wednesday, running back Eric Gray accepted his invitation to the Senior Bowl.

The unofficial all-star game is the first step in the journey of players transitioning from college to the NFL, as they are coached in Mobile, AL, all week by actual NFL coaches and perform in front of NFL scouts and general managers.

Morris, a 6-foot-6, 310-pound senior from Grayson, GA, played his first two seasons at the University of Tennessee before transferring to Oklahoma in 2021. He has the frame to thrive in the NFL, and now has two years coaching from Bill Bedenbaugh, who has populated the league with OU offensive linemen for a decade.

Morris was on the SEC All-Freshman team in 2019 and earned Freshman All-American accolades as well as he started 12 of 13 games for the Vols. He started seven times in 2020, then came to OU.

Morris never cracked the starting lineup and played sparingly as a junior, then won the starting right tackle job in 2022 — but missed the first two games of the season while serving a suspension.

With the option of returning next season, Morris will instead test the waters in the NFL.

According to Pro Football Focus, Morris has the third-highest overall offensive grade on the team — 76.6, behind only running back Eric Gray (90.2) and quarterback Dillon Gabriel (86.2). He played a total of 580 snaps this season.

Morris graded out at 76.9 on his run blocks, which ranks behind only tight ends Brayden Willis and Daniel Parker. His pass blocking grade of 73.9 ranks sixth on the team.

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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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