{"id":848406,"date":"2026-08-08T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:36:16","slug":"morris-cowboys-talk-at-osu-football-media-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848406\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris, Cowboys Talk at OSU Football Media Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STILLWATER \u2013\u00a0Oklahoma State&#8217;s football coach Eric Morris, along with 35 players, met with the media on Saturday morning at the annual Oklahoma State Football Media Day.<\/p>\n<p>The day began with a news conference with Morris, which can be seen in its entirety here:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nFollowing the news conference, media were given access to the Cowboy players for nearly an hour. The player representation included quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/drew-mestemaker\/14374\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14374\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Mestemaker<\/a>, running back <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/caleb-hawkins\/14352\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14352\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Hawkins<\/a> and multiple other key pieces to the squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our mantra this year is we call ourselves &#8216;misfits,'&#8221; Morris said. &#8220;We have a bunch of people from different situations. Some are coming off really positive situations where they were great players that got recruited at a high level that hadn&#8217;t gone through that before. Then you look at Wyatt (Young), Caleb (Hawkins) and Drew (Mestemaker), those guys didn&#8217;t get recruited out of high school and then all of the sudden they have a great season, they produce at a high level and then they have blue bloods all over the country calling them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hear from several Cowboys at media day below.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor season-long coverage of Oklahoma State Football, visit\u00a0okstate.com\u00a0and follow @CowboyFootball on Instagram and X.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STILLWATER \u2013\u00a0Oklahoma State&#8217;s football coach Eric Morris, along with 35 players, met with the media on Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-848406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}