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Top Safety Recruit Adam Auston Eager for Oklahoma's 'Future Freaks' Weekend Event

The Sooners haven't extended an offer yet to the OK Preps prospect, but he's received offers from numerous Power 4 schools and could add one from OU soon.

John E. Hoover

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TULSA — Adam Auston, maybe the top safety in the state of Oklahoma in the class of 2026, does not have an offer from OU yet.

That could change soon — maybe even this weekend.

Auston, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound defensive back from Lawton, OK, is attending Brent Venables’ “Future Freaks” recruiting weekend in Norman.

“Me and Coach (Brandon) Hall have been talking about the visit since probably December or November, around there,” Auston told AllSooners recently. “We just were talking about it.

“He wants to get me on campus, for us to talk, and me to meet all the coaches and stuff like that, see the environment, stuff like that.”

Auston currently holds 10 Division I scholarship offers, including Power 4 offers from Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt and Washington State.

Auston said his family has always pretty much rooted for OU.

“My grandpa went to OU in like, probably like the ‘60s,” he said. “So I’ve always been around OU and they’ve always been around me.”

Auston also acknowledges that he grew up a fan of the Sooners.

“I did,” he said. “But … I was an OU fan for a little bit, but I kind of like, branched away.

“I’ve been to a couple games when I was younger, but that was really it.”

Recruiting often takes precedence over youthful allegiances. Now he’s trying to make a business decision, not an emotional one. And to that end, he’s struck up strong relationships with coaches at Colorado, Arkansas, TCU, Texas Tech — and OU.

Those relationships, he said, are “very important to me. I don’t want to go somewhere just because of the name. I want to go there because I feel like I’m family to them. I want to be able to talk to them after football is all said and done, because football ’s not forever.”

The whole recruiting process has been enlightening, exciting and even enticing for the MacArthur High School prospect.

“I really like the fact that I just get to meet all these coaches and just see the different schemes and how they coach their players,” he said. “Just the way the environment and everything, it’s a great environment no matter where I go.

“I really like the fact that they’re really personal. They want to get to know me. They want to know me as a person. They all watch my film — I know they’re really watching it — and they’re recruiting me at the position I want to play at the next level.”

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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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