Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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MarcoVol said:
Which teams have the type of quality depth on the interior DL that you think is good?
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Here’s what I found on Oklahoma’s 2025 defensive line—including star rankings and player ages—based on the most reliable recent sources:


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Star Rankings for 2025 Sooners D-Line

Preseason SEC positional rankings placed Oklahoma first among SEC teams at defensive line, citing “returning talent like Damonic Williams, Gracen Halton, and R Mason Thomas,” along with depth from Jayden Jackson and David Stone .

A Yahoo! Sports piece also highlighted OU’s projected starting front: R Mason Thomas, Damonic Williams, Jayden Jackson, and **Marvin Jones Jr.** .

Further context from SEC media preview: They ranked Oklahoma second among SEC teams (Alabama was first). They singled out the depth and talent of Williams, Halton, Jackson, Thomas, Marvin Jones Jr., Adepoju Adebawore, and David Stone .



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Roster Depth & Ages — Defensive Line

From the Wikipedia roster for 2025 (updated within the last two days), here’s the defensive line personnel with their class and birth dates/ages:

David Stone – DT – Sophomore – born Nov 20, 2005 → 19 years old

Marvin Jones Jr. – DL (likely DE) – Senior – age not listed (NB: birth date not publicly available)

R Mason Thomas – DE – Senior – born Aug 25, 2004 → 21 years old

Adepoju “PJ” Adebawore – DE – Junior – born circa 2005 → ~19–20 years old

Damonic Williams – DT – Senior – born Sep 4, 2004 → **21 years old (turning 21 on Sep 4, 2025)**

Gracen Halton – DT – Senior – born Jan 27, 2004 → 21 years old

Jayden Jackson – DT – Sophomore – age not specified (birth date not publicly known)


Other depth players include many underclassmen (freshmen/sophomores) whose birth dates are not publicly available yet.


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At-A-Glance Summary

Player Position Class Approx. Age Birth Date

David Stone Defensive Tackle Sophomore 19 Nov 20, 2005
R Mason Thomas Defensive End Senior 21 Aug 25, 2004
Damonic Williams Defensive Tackle Senior 21 Sep 4, 2004
Gracen Halton Defensive Tackle Senior 21 Jan 27, 2004
Adepoju Adebawore Defensive End Junior ~19–20 c. 2005
Marvin Jones Jr. Defensive Line Senior Not known Not listed
Jayden Jackson Defensive Tackle Sophomore Not known Not listed



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Final Notes

Star ranking of the unit: OU’s defensive line is broadly viewed as the top‑ranked in the SEC, or at worst, second—but clearly among the elite due to depth and returning experience .

Ages: Most key players are between 19 and 21 years old. For Marvin Jones Jr. and Jayden Jackson, no public birth dates are available as of now.


Let me know if you'd like details on position-by-position breakdown of the 2-deep depth chart or comparisons with other teams!
 
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mrMet said:
Yeah for sure. I’ve been staring at the Texas game, Clemson game, LSU game and pondering taking the dogs. They’ll be on my radar heading to Saturday morning to see if they can get past the key numbers
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Only thing I have in those games is the Texas o52. I was looking at it this am and played a unit - liked how low it seemed coming off both teams very much underperforming offensively in week 1. Listened to Brad powers on covers early this afternoon and it was one of his best bets, so tossed another unit on it lol.

I would be weary of the dogs in Texas and Clemson since they may let some anger out after struggling mightily in week 1 with their offense. I looked at ULM in that LSU game too, just haven’t got there yet. They were just super frustrating to watch last week when I had them against SFU.
 
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Vols410 said:
Lol no they didn’t. PFF gave Nico a 63.2. Most of that was running. His pass grade was in the low 50s.

AI search capabilities won’t access paid content. If there’s not a blog or something that references it you’re asking for hallucination.
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It literally said when he played "Utah in 2024" 🤣🤣

The first red flag...
 
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jave36 said:
Texas will win by 100 if they can. They have several narratives to reverse.
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You know I’m a trend guy and the trend is something along the lines of ranked teams coming off a loss being favored by 30+ their next game have only covered around 22% of the time in the last 20 years. Makes it enticing
 
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berryvol said:
Only thing I have in those games is the Texas o52. I was looking at it this am and played a unit - liked how low it seemed coming off both teams very much underperforming offensively in week 1. Listened to Brad powers on covers early this afternoon and it was one of his best bets, so tossed another unit on it lol.

I would be weary of the dogs in Texas and Clemson since they may let some anger out after struggling mightily in week 1 with their offense. I looked at ULM in that LSU game too, just haven’t got there yet. They were just super frustrating to watch last week when I had them against SFU.
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I love Brad.

ULM plays Bama. LSU has La Tech
 
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mrMet said:
You know I’m a trend guy and the trend is something along the lines of ranked teams coming off a loss being favored by 30+ their next game have only covered around 22% of the time in the last 20 years. Makes it enticing
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Also, Scotty W gonna have an extra bump of the Bolivian power powder before kickoff. He’ll be ready.
 
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