Two Oklahoma Players Land on Lombardi List

Tight end Austin Stogner and defensive lineman Jalen Redmond both make the preseason watch list.

John E. Hoover | Aug 9, 2021

Two Oklahoma Players Land on Lombardi List /

The Rotary Club of Houston and the Rotary Lombardi Club tabbed two Oklahoma Sooners for this year’s Lombardi Award preseason watch list.

The list, which includes 80 players, was announced last week.

OU junior tight end Austin Stogner and junior defensive lineman Jalen Redmond were among the players identified for this year’s award.

The Lombardi Award is given to the “college football offensive or defensive lineman, who in addition to outstanding performance and ability, best exemplifies the character and discipline of NFL Hall of Fame head coach Vince Lombardi.”

Lombardi winner must be a down lineman on either side of the ball or a linebacker, and can not come out of the offensive backfield.

In his first two seasons at OU, the 6-foot-6, 251-pound Stogner, from Plano, TX, has 33 receptions for 422 yards and five touchdowns and has emerged as one of Spencer Rattler’s go-to threats in the red zone and on third down.

In his two seasons with the Sooners, the 6-2, 279-pound Redmond, from Midwest City, OK, has 29 career tackles, including 13.5 tackles for loss and 6.5 quarterback sacks. Redmond redshirted the 2017 season, then opted out of 2020 before returning to the team for last year’s bowl practices.

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Published Aug 9, 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.