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Oklahoma TE Austin Stogner Lands on Preseason Watch List

The Sooners' senior is on the Mackey Award watch list after transferring back from South Carolina, and could be on the verge of  big statistical season.

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Back at Oklahoma for senior year, Sooners tight end Austin Stogner is hoping to produce a big season.

He’s off to a good start, as Stogner was among 48 players included Friday on the preseason watch list for the John Mackey Award. The Mackey is presented annually to the best tight end in college football.

Stogner, from Plano, TX (Prestonwood Christian Academy), began his college career with the Sooners in 2019 but spent the 2022 season as a transfer at South Carolina. He caught just 20 passes for the Gamecocks last season.

Stogner, who has 67 career receptions for 864 yards and eight touchdowns, would no doubt prefer the type of offensive impact he had in 2020, when he caught 26 passes for 422 yards despite playing in just eight games. That 3.25 catches per game easily represents his career high.

The 6-foot-6, 255-pound Stogner was a 4-star recruit by 247 Sports, Rivals and ESPN and was the No. 11 overall prospect in the state of Texas as rated by ESPN (No. 16 by 247 Sports) and was chosen to play in All-America Bowl.

Stogner already owns his bachelor’s degree in marketing from OU and is now finishing his master’s in supply chain management.

He’s among six Big 12 Conference tight ends on the watch list, joined by Texas’ Ja’Tavion Sanders, Kansas State’s Ben Sinnott, Kansas’ Mason Fairchild, TCU’s Jared Wiley, BYU’s Isaac Rex.

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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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