It’s not often that you see a 3-9 team send multiple players to play in a postseason Senior Bowl, but that’s been the case for Oklahoma State after their tumultuous 2024 season.
After the worst year of Mike Gundy’s head coaching career, the Cowboys are hoping to turn things around in a major way in 2025, but they’ll have to do it without several of their most proven players.
Nick Martin and Collin Oliver have already committed to playing in the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl, but now the bowl has added the Pokes’ best offensive player with running back Ollie Gordon committing on Tuesday.
In 2024, Gordon turned 190 carries into 880 yards and 13 touchdowns, averaging just 4.6 yards per carry. For the majority of running backs in college football, that would be a perfectly acceptable stat line for 12 games.
However, Gordon proved in 2023 that he’s anything but the standard, run-of-the-mill running back, totaling 1,732 yards for 21 touchdowns on the ground, adding 330 yards and a score as a receiver as well.
Currently, Gordon is projected between a fourth- and fifth-round selection, but he could vastly improve his prospects if he can show that this year was more of a product of his situation than his ceiling as a player.
