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PFF Grades, Redshirt Report and more
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PFF Grades, Redshirt Report and more

The Sooners are officially on a losing streak.

Oklahoma dropped its third straight game with a 26-14 loss to Ole Miss Saturday in Oxford. The Sooners let it slip away after leading 14-10 at halftime. The deficit put OU at 4-4 overall this season and 1-4 in SEC play.

“A lot of good things we played to give us a chance,” the OU coach Brent Venables said after the match. “But the explosive plays were killer and they lost our rhythm on offense for more than three quarters there. It’s just hard. It’s a good football team. They put a lot of pressure on you. They did a good job of coming back in the second half and playing winning football when they had to. And we weren’t able to put things together like we were in the first half. That’s how the game went.”

Here’s a look at some OU numbers — Pro Football Focus grades and snap counts — coming out of the Sooners’ loss to Ole Miss.

Offensively, at least according to Pro Football Focus, this was OU’s best offensive performance since beating Auburn five weeks ago. It was the offense’s best grade in a 57.4 loss.

The Sooners threw their seventh different starting offensive combo of the season Jacob Sexton, Heath Ozaeta, Troy Everett, Febechi Nwaiwu and Michael Tarquin. Four of them played all 86 snaps: Ozaeta, Everett, Nwaiwu and Tarquin. Sexton, however, left the game twice due to injury and never returned after the second, totaling 29 snaps, according to PFF. in his place Logan Howland played 57 snaps.

Among the linemen, Tarquin received the best grade at 65.4, followed by Nwaiwu (64.5), Everett (60.4), Howland (54.4), Ozaeta (52.3) and Sexton (38 ,7), because the group gave the worst 10 sacks. According to PFF, Ozaeta and Howland were each responsible for two of those sacks.

For the first time since Week 3 against Tulane, Jackson Arnold started and finished a game as QB1. PFF graded his performance at 55.6, which is his worst grade as a starter this season unless he was pulled against Tennessee.

The running back was the most successful offensive position, according to PFF. Jovantae Barnes and Taylor Tatum were the highest-rated offensive players at 68.7 and 67.1, respectively. Sam Franklin he was also in 6th place with a 61.6. Their rushing distribution was Barnes (59), Tatum (23) and Franklin (5).

Road freshman Jacob Jordan was again the featured wide receiver with a 63.4 grade while playing 63 snaps. Other receivers to get with snap count included Brennan Thompson (78), JJ Hester (72), Zion Kearney (13), Zion Ragins (9) and Ivan Carreon (8).

Bauer Sharp was the most productive tight end with 71 snaps and a 59.1 grade, followed by Jake Roberts (27) and Kade McIntyre (1).

Defensively, linebacker Danny Stutsman outscored everyone else with 63. Supportive colleagues Kip Lewis was 40 Dasan McCollough with 27, Ford followed with 25, Kobe McKinzie with 24, Samuel Omosigho with nine and Lewis Carter with one. Ford also had the highest grade of any Sooner at 75.6.

In the secondary, it was Billy Bowman Jr. (61), Eli Bowen (52), Robert Spears-Jennings (51), Kani Walker (32), Dejohn Malone (30), Woody Washington (29), Jacob Johnson (6), Michael Boganowski (4) and Peyton Bowen (4). Overall, it was an underperforming group, with no players scoring in the 70s.

OU was strong up front, though, with Ethan Downs (75), Grace Halton (74.4) and Jayden Jackson (72.4) exceeding that threshold. The number of snapshots was widely distributed in the front R Mason Thomas (44), Da’Jon Terry (36), Halton (35), Downs (30), Jackson (29), Damonic Williams (27), Caiden Woollard (22) and Adepoju Adebawore (10).

No one exceeded their redshirt limit on Saturday, but the receiver Ivan Carreon he reached his four-game limit. It was also of Jacob Jordan third appearance in a game, so he has one more contest to spare before burning his redshirt.