I’ll admit: I was wrong.
When I saw No. 35 darting across Tulsa Union’s football field in 2017, a 6-foot-5 gazelle moving quicker than everyone and with body control like Shakira, I was pretty much sold. C.J. Moore became my dude. My favorite recruit in the 2017 class.
It didn’t take me long to buy in. I saw the Division I interest he was getting, I saw the gaudy stats he was putting up with what I thought was an FCS-level quarterback, I saw the speed. I later thought, when OSU landed him, that it was getting a can’t-miss super star receiver.