This preseason the buzz around Oklahoma State football has centered around its talented group of transfers. Some have received much more attention than others.

Take quarterback Drew Mestemaker. After he led FBS in passing yards a year ago at North Texas and then transferred to the Cowboys, he landed an invitation to the Manning Passing Academy this summer. He impressed the Manning family with his ability.

The Cowboys also have other talented and highly productive transfers including two of Mestemaker’s former teammates at North Texas, running back Caleb Hawkins and wide receiver Wyatt Young.

Outside of the near 20 Mean Green that followed head coach Eric Morris north from Denton, the Cowboys also pulled a wealth of other talented transfers.

Recently, both CBS Sports and 247Sports published extensive previews of the Big 12, including under the radar players. Both sites agreed that this Oklahoma State transfer is generating a lot of preseason buzz, even though he doesn’t have the career production to back it up.

The OSU Transfer That’s Buzz-Worthy

The transfer is linebacker Tate Romney, a senior transfer from Arizona State who also played at BYU. One site, 247Sports (subscription required), quoted a source that had seen Romney play this spring.

“Tate just running the show (has been impressive),” that source said. “Physical. Natural feel in the run game. Very smart football player.”

He’s projected to start alongside another former UNT player, Ethan Wesloski, at linebacker in OSU’s 4-2-5 defense. The difference is production. Wesloski led North Texas with 113 tackles (59 solo) last season. Romney doesn’t have that many tackles for his entire career. Why? Injuries and lack of opportunity have worked against him.

Romney is Oklahoma State’s oldest player, per the OSU site. He is already married and has a child. He did two years’ worth of missions from his time at BYU. But, aside from his solid 2023 season, he hasn’t played much.

That year, after a true freshman season in which he played three games, Romney was tied for fourth on the team with 52 tackles, adding four a for a loss with one sack. Had a season high eight tackles in games against Southern Utah and Washington State. From the standpoint of use, he was a Top 25 freshman defender.

But it stopped after that. In 2024 he suffered a broken arm that forced him to miss the first six games of the season. From there, playing time was hard to come by, aside from special teams. He transferred to Arizona State for 2025, which was fresh off winning the Big 12 title and going to the College Football Playoff. He was also a native of Chandler, Ariz., where he was 2019 Arizona 6A Varsity Linebacker of the Year and won three state titles.

With the Sun Devils he played inn 10 games, finished with 13 tackles and had five tackles against Utah. But the impact he was hoping for didn’t happen.

Romney is a transfer that falls into the opportunity category. The production says that he’s nothing more than a solid depth linebacker. That two different sites have sources telling them otherwise is intriguing.

The proof will come in September if Romney finally gets the opportunity for regular starting time alongside Wesloski as the Cowboys attempt to climb out of the cellar in the Big 12. If the predictions are right, the Cowboys may have two productive linebackers on their hands in 2026.

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TULSA, Okla. — Nearly one year after the tragedy at Camp Mystic in Texas that took the lives of 28 people, including children. Governor Stitt signed a new House Bill 16-75 that requires camps across the state to have emergency action plans in place.

This new law will have camps in Oklahoma work directly with their county’s emergency management teams. It ensures that all camps have emergency action plans that include training staff, evacuation routes and better weather alert systems.

WATCH: New Oklahoma law requires emergency action plans for summer camps

Oklahoma passes new camp safety law

I listened with Scotty Stokes, a father and founder of Oklahoma Firefighters Burn Camp for child burn survivors, about what this means to other parents like him.

“As a father and a grandfather, when your kids go to camp, and mine did when they were younger, I mean you’re worried about them, you’re constantly worried about them,” Stokes said.

“You’re constantly watching things like the weather and making sure they are safe, are they being taken care of, and you may even be contacting that camp. with the implementation of this new law, it makes it a little easier on the parents to understand that these camps have been through a process to prepare for these extreme weather events that occur here in Oklahoma.”

With this new camp safety law, campers and parents across Oklahoma can have peace of mind that precautions to keep campers safe is finally the standard.”

I also spoke with Keaton Forest, emergency management field manager at WSB. This company has taken the initiative to connect camps with their county’s emergency management team. In hopes of making the process go smoother as camps get into compliance with the new law.

“Behind this, what we saw was an opportunity to connect camp organizations with emergency managers through several conversations we’ve had through some camps and as well as emergency managers,” Forest said.

“We’ve noticed that a lot of them don’t have standing relationships. So right now, what we’re doing is doing our best to gather information from both of them and collaborate on making a new emergency action plan for these camps.”

This camp safety law will take effect Jan 1.

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