Report: Oklahoma RB Tre Bradford No Longer With the Team

The LSU transfer from Lancaster, TX, had drawn attention for his speed and explosiveness, but the OU Daily reports he's no longer a part of the Sooner team.

John E. Hoover | Aug 26, 2021

According to a report in the OU Daily, sophomore running back Tre Bradford is no longer with the Oklahoma football team.

The Daily report cites "multiple" unnamed sources in saying Bradford has missed the Sooners' last two practices. Bradford does remain on the football team's official online roster as of Thursday afternoon.

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Assistant sports editor Austin Curtright reports that the OU student newspaper has reached out to the athletics department about Bradford's absence, but had not yet received a response to the query.

Bradford transferred to Oklahoma in June from LSU and had been applauded in recent interviews by head coach Lincoln Riley and running backs coach DeMarco Murray, as well as teammates, for his speed and explosiveness.

His departure for reasons unknown leaves the Sooners with just two scholarship running backs: in redshirt junior Kennedy Brooks, who opted out of the 2020 college football season, and junior Eric Gray, who played his first two seasons at Tennessee.

The news comes on the heels of this week's revelation that junior Marcus Major, who was vying for third-string reps with Bradford, is academically ineligible and won't play this season.

The Sooners also lost two running backs from last season when T.J. Pledger transferred to Utah and Seth McGowan was kicked off the team for his apparent involvement in an alleged armed robbery.

The backups as of now are walk-ons Jaden Knowles and Todd Hudson, although it's like that fullback Jeremiah Hall could get some snaps in a pinch.

Last December, Bradford was arrested for an alleged shoplifting incident at a Walmart in Baton Rouge. He reportedly told police it was a misunderstanding.

Published Aug 26, 2021

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.