{"id":214991,"date":"2025-10-10T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214991\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:17:09","slug":"oklahoma-lands-commitment-from-four-star-lb-jacob-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214991\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma lands commitment from four-star LB Jacob Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ponte Vedra Beach (Fla.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/nease-ponte-vedra-beach-fl-21283\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nease<\/a> Rivals300 linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jacob-curry-238442\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Curry<\/a> has committed to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>The four-star prospect chose to play his college football for head coach Brent Venables and the Sooners over Ohio State, Florida State and Baylor among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOU felt like home from the moment I stepped on campus,\u201d Curry told Rivals. \u201cMy relationship with the coaches have been strong since day one and I know they will develop me on and off the field. They have a plan for me and I\u2019m excited to learn from the best defense in college football. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve found my home and proud to be a Sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curry is a former Northwestern recruit that took his official to Norman for the Sooners win over Auburn. That trip put Oklahoma in the driver seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s in the fold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing game day experience and official visit,\u201d Curry said at the time. \u201cI completely believe in Coach Venables and what he\u2019s building at OU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the whole package\u2026every aspect from the coaches, culture, fans, facilities and development I\u2019d receive sets them apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love everything about OU\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Curry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/oklahoma-sooners\/football\/2026\/commits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">becomes commit No. 21 for Oklahoma in the 2026 cycle<\/a>, adding to a class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/rankings\/industry-team\/football\/2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals previously ranked No. 20 nationally.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rivals ranks Curry as the nation\u2019s No. 15 linebacker and No. 255 prospect overall. The Rivals Industry respectively slots him at No. 36 and No. 436.<\/p>\n<p>In his first five games as a junior Curry has racked up 53 tackles with four coming for loss, two sacks, 11 hurries and a forced fumble. He had 101 stops as a junior, forced two fumbles and defended seven passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ponte Vedra Beach (Fla.) Nease Rivals300 linebacker Jacob Curry has committed to Oklahoma. The four-star prospect chose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[622,399,122008,398,396,397,44797,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-214991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacob-curry-26-nease","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-nease-panthers-ponte-vedra-beach","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}