WR Charleston Rambo on Earl Campbell Award Watch List

The award goes to college football's best player with Texas ties

John E. Hoover | Sep 2, 2020

Charleston Rambo against LSU / Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports

Oklahoma junior Charleston Rambo is one of 47 players on this year’s watch list for the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award.

The Campbell trophy goes to the nation’s top college football player with Texas ties.

Rambo, a fourth-year junior from Cedar Hill, TX, is expected to be the Sooners’ top receiving target in 2020.

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He caught eight passes for 125 yards and a touchdown as a redshirt freshman in 2018 (including three catches for 74 yards and TD against Alabama in the College Football Playoff), and last year he was second on the Sooners corps with 43 catches for 743 yards and five TDs (including three 100-yard performances in Oklahoma’s first four games).

Rambo averaged 17.3 yards per catch as a sophomore.

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Published Sep 2, 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.