The Oklahoma Sooners were shut out of the first round of the NFL Draft for the first time since 2022. They had a 22-year streak of consecutive drafts with three players selected, but it was snapped when only Danny Stutsman and Billy Bowman were selected in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Last man out. In 1946, shortly after leaping from a plummeting B-24 bomber and hiding in caves from Nazi patrols for six months, an Oklahoma farm boy was drafted by the Green Bay Packers as the 66 th pick of the NFL draft. The strapping lineman declined fame and a football future: “I’m going home to work my crops.”

For the first time in more than two decades, only two Oklahoma Sooners were selected in the NFL Draft. Linebacker Danny Stutsman and safety Billy Bowman Jr. were both fourth-round picks, but no other Sooners from the 2024 squad got picked after them.