Jeremy Beal Is Returning!

by ccmachine on Jan 15, 2010 10:00 PM CST in Football

Like many of you, I had heard this a few days ago but I was waiting until I could actually read something other than the rumor mills to confirm it. With today (Friday) being the deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NFL draft Oklahoma defensive end Jeremy Beal announced that he'd be returning in 2010.

"Even though it was a good year, I've still got a lot of stuff to improve on becoming a better player," Beal said. "I look at it as a building block for another level I have to get to."

Beal is tied for sixth in school history with 20.5 quarterback sacks and has 140 career tackles. He was chosen second-team All Big 12 after leading the team with 19 tackles for loss and 11 sacks. He finished the season with 70 total tackles.

With Gerald McCoy, Keenan Clayton, Ryan Reynolds, Dominique Franks and Brian Jackson all leaving from the 2009 defense the return of Beal at defensive end will be key in 2010.

		Sacks		Interceptions			Tackles
	G	Sacks	YdsL	Int	Yds	IntTD	Solo	Ast	Tackles For Loss
2009 - Jeremy Beal	13	11	72	1	4	0	45	25	19

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Very good news!

He will be the leader at the DE position this line needed heading into next year. It will be great to have him and Alexander at the starting spots w/ King, Washington, and several others ready to come in and spell them.

by jtesooner on Jan 16, 2010 10:41 AM CST reply actions