Oklahoma Football: Sooner 2017 Recruiting Soaring

College football recruiting doesn’t generally make its big splash until the December-January time frame, but Oklahoma football is making headlines much earlier in the recruiting cycle this time around.

The football world is naturally focused this week on the NFL draft, but as talented college stars anxiously await the NFL’s annual player draft and what they hope will be their gateway to the game’s next level, other younger football prospects are being observed and recruited to feed the pipeline at the college level.

Under head coach Bob Stoops has assembled several top-10 recruiting classes in his 17 seasons at Oklahoma, but in the last several recruiting cycles, the Sooners’ incoming class…