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Oklahoma Transfer QB Target Picks Nebraska

Chubba Purdy visited both Oklahoma and Nebraska last week and has decided he wants to be a Cornhusker.

John E. Hoover

Chubba Purdy, younger brother of Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy and one of the transfer portal QBs that Oklahoma had been targeting, is going to Nebraska.

He announced his decision Monday on Twitter.

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Purdy, from Gilbert, AZ, visited OU last week and got a scholarship offer from Brent Venables, Jeff Lebby and the Sooners’ staff after he left Florida State and entered the portal in November.

Purdy posted several photos from his visits to Norman and Lincoln, and decided he wants to be a Cornhusker.

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Purdy’s main competition at Nebraska figures to be a transfer portal arrival as well: Oklahoma native and Texas transfer Casey Thompson previously announced he would be continuing his college career in Lincoln.

Oklahoma is still in the market for a second quarterback out of the transfer portal. After the Sooners lost Spencer Rattler to South Carolina and watched Caleb Williams enter the portal (Williams hasn’t announced his destination yet), OU landed UCF transfer Dillon Gabriel.

The Sooners hosted USC transfer Jaxson Dart over the weekend and are still hoping to reel him in. Dart was a true freshman backup for the Trojans last season.

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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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