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Williams Nwaneri, Oklahoma's Top 2024 Target, Locks Down Announcement

The No. 1 defensive end in the nation has long been a priority recruit for the Sooners, and announced Thursday he's chosen the time he'll let everyone know.

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In four days, everyone will finally know.

Williams Nwaneri, one of the top high school defensive players in the nation, announced Thursday that he's chosen what time he will reveal his choice for playing college football.

Nwaneri, a 6-foot-6, 260-pound edge rusher from Lee's Summit North High School near Kansas City, will announce his decision at 3 p.m. Monday.

Nwaneri is down to OU and Missouri, although he also has included Oregon, Georgia and Tennessee in his final five.

Williams Nwaneri  / Williams Nwaneri via Twitter

He's made visiting he OU campus part of his routine, which has long put the Sooners in the role as favorites to land Nwaneri's prodigious talents. But Missouri, which is not far from his family home in Lee's Summit, has reportedly made significant inroads recently.

Recruiting insiders who have followed his recruitment closely have swung back and forth between OU and Mizzou lately. 

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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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