Oklahoma’s Delarrin Turner-Yell Drafted by Denver

One other Oklahoma participant is off the board, and the Sooners’ streak is alive and properly.

Security Delarrin Turner-Yell was picked Saturday afternoon by the Denver Broncos with the ninth choose within the fifth spherical — 152nd total — within the 2022 NFL Draft.

That gave the Sooners 4 gamers chosen on this 12 months’s draft, all on protection — Nik Bonitto, Brian Asamoah and Perrion Winfrey had been beforehand taken — giving OU 4 gamers drafted for the fifteenth 12 months in a row. That streak leads all of faculty soccer.

It is the primary time since 1984 that OU’s first 4 picks had been all on protection, per athletics communications director Mike Houck.

In Denver, Turner-Yell shall be reunited with Bonitto, an edge linebacker who was picked Friday by the Broncos with the final choose of the second spherical.  

Turner-Yell, a senior at OU who had an extra 12 months of eligibility, was a three-year starter for the Sooners earlier than electing to show professional.

After enjoying in seven video games as a backup throughout his freshman 12 months in 2018, Turner-Yell made 13 begins in 2019, eight begins in 2020 and 10 extra in 2021.

He totaled 191 tackles in his profession, which included a career-high 75 (60 solo) as a sophomore. Turner-Yell additionally made 10 profession tackles for loss, had 4 interceptions (three final season) and broke up six passes.

The 5-foot-10, 197-pound Turner-Yell, a 3-star prospect out of Hempstead, TX, ran his 40 in 4.47 seconds on the NFL Scouting Mix in March, displaying groups that he had bodily athleticism to go along with a physique of labor at OU.