Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[Batman1948]

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One of these people just may be an alien

 

[berryvol]

I love Brad.

ULM plays Bama. LSU has La Tech

You’re right, was getting those damn Louisiana schools mixed up lol

 

[Batman1948]

Surrender Toast

I was leaning some kinda potato

 

[berryvol]

I love Brad.

ULM plays Bama. LSU has La Tech

I just saw where the ole Miss game tanked down to 7.5 some places today, sitting 8.5 for me right now. Wonder what in the world happened there. Total hasn’t moved at all.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

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!

Alabama DL first…LOL

 

[Orangeburst]

is it me or does it seem our last game was like 3 weeks ago?

 

[GoBigOrange86]

 

[jave36]

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

Curious how that changes when it's first game of the season. But that's a great stat

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Enjoy sucking a** and being embarrassed in front of nobody for a school that don't giva about football for a few more dollars...also enjoy that expert Will Friend coaching your gonna get until he is inevitably fahred.

What a moronic play...it wasn't like he was getting nothing from us, but AP said he came in demanding a whole lot more and was basically told to piss off.

This kid is either really stupid...or he really honestly gives no s about winning, or playing for a winning program...money isn't everything, and if you are good enough, the big payday will come...but this idiot ain't ever going to get there now by choosing to go get coached by Will Friend.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I think we will look back at this transfer class as one of the greatest in the country. Once they leave their final marks.

And a lot of folks pissed and moaned over that transfer class..

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Which teams have the type of quality depth on the interior DL that you think is good?

I’m honestly just comparing us to ourselves over the last year or two, not to any other team. I don’t think we can primarily count on the D to keep us in a game like we have recently when the offense isn’t clicking. We can agree to disagree but I don’t think the DL is what we need it to be, and throw in injuries, and we are weaker than I’d like and may very well get gashed depending on the opponent. I’m sure the backups will progress as they’re thrown into the mix and I can come back off the ledge but the DL group just has me unsettled for the entirety of the season. Hope they prove me wrong.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Anyone transferring to that dumpster got shoved.

You think that is what happened?...AP said his people came in and wanted a lot more than what they were happy to get when he committed, and they basically told him to go piss off.

Bill throwing huge bags at 3*s....that's a bold strategy, let's see how it works out.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Standard question...recruited over?

No...AP said he or his handlers came in and wanted more a LOT money....we basically told them to have a nice life.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

As bad as UNC just was I can only presume they tossed more money his way.

AP said this is what happened

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Different coach..........

Pull hard for my Govs.......we need it.
hoping for no injuries..............and keep it respectful score wise.

Well crap...I was hoping they would at least help us out by rolling up a few knees...I will definitely be pulling hard for them to embarrass UGA by actually giving them a game...and the first idiot that barks at me will regret it.

 

[SoilVol]

As bad as UNC just was I can only presume they tossed more money his way.

Imagine being so bad in Game 1 that you get frantically desperate and throw too much money at a 3 star (albeit high potential).

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I like the optimism. I'd still be happier if we had one less secondary and one less interior d-lineman hurt.

Speaking of - how fortuitous was landing Hood? He was almost an afterthought for some.

Retaining Boo seems pretty important also.

We need that little turd to do something great to make up for the massive P.I.T.A. he has been to deal with, and for all of the distracting crap he has caused with his lazy selfish .

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Enki’s new boat..serves him right fir spending our NIL money

Ouch...somebody forgot to close something

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

If you have the NIL, you don't worry about transfers. You don't lose anyone you aren't willing to lose.

This is dumb

 

[RandomUTfan]

I don't understand the long-term strategy of overpaying marginal players better teams aren't willing to match the offers on. It just doesn't make much logical sense. You're getting less for your money that way when you really need to be maximizing what you have when you are competing against teams with deeper pockets. I say let other schools overpay our lower-rated recruits.

 

[mrMet]

I just saw where the ole Miss game tanked down to 7.5 some places today, sitting 8.5 for me right now. Wonder what in the world happened there. Total hasn’t moved at all.

Yeah I saw that too. No idea what that’s about with how bad UK looked last week

 

[LittleVol]

That’s one team. Who are the others that have all this interior DL depth?

Georgia for sure. There’s a bunch of kids we recruited hard that are on that UGA Dline.

There’s DTs in their 3 deep that would be seeing 60 snaps with us.

 

[Adam Sandler]

I’ll name names! That bammer scum got embarrassed!

 

[SagginVawls]

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

I’ve been looking at a Michigan/under parlay myself.

 

[Adam Sandler]

Ready for round 2 jawja boy! WH is harhin so maybe you can get paid to cook my hashbrowns once I'm done whoopin ya.
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You’ll get hash browns smothered and covered in your you know what!