SI Sooners National Signing Day primer: The Caleb Williams Chronicles

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John E. Hoover | Dec 15, 2020

SI Sooners National Signing Day primer: The Caleb Williams Chronicles /

Caleb Williams: All on the Line, Chapter 1

Top 2021 QB Caleb Williams puts Sooners in Top 5

Caleb Williams names some prospects he’d like to play with

Top QB recruit Caleb Williams doing plenty of his own recruiting

Caleb Williams to narrow down list of school choices

Caleb Williams narrows field to Maryland, LSU and OU

Caleb Williams announces his commitment / Photo: CBS HQ screenshot

LSU ‘still coming hard’ after Caleb Williams

Caleb Williams sets commitment date

Caleb Williams named finalist in Elite 11 QB competition

Caleb Williams named No. 1 among Elite 11 participants by SI All-American

Elite 11, Day 1: Caleb Williams is on another level

Parker Thune’s Elite 11 rankings after Day 1

Caleb Williams note as impressive, but still among Elite 11 MVP contenders

Parker Thune’s Elite 11 rankings after Day 2

Caleb Williams talks winning Elite 11 MVP: ‘More than a trophy’

Caleb Williams named Elite 11 MVP

Caleb Williams gets in some work / Photo provided

Time for Caleb Williams to get busy … recruiting more stars like him

A weekend’s worth of reaction to Caleb Williams’ commitment to OU

Caleb Williams reflects on OU commitment, Elite 11

Caleb Williams says family will move to Oklahoma; Sooner Summit on tap

Caleb Williams at the Elite 11 Camp / Photo: Spencer Forsyth

Caleb Williams wants to bring old pal Jalil Farooq home to Norman

Caleb Williams talks All-American Bowl

Caleb Williams on his visit to Owen Field: ‘The fans were really cool’

Caleb Williams discusses Jalil Farooq’s commitment: ‘We did always say we were gonna play college ball together’

Published Dec 15, 2020

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.