{"id":26824,"date":"2019-12-18T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=26824"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:28:41","slug":"michael-henderson-inks-with-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/12\/18\/michael-henderson-inks-with-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Henderson Inks With Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2019\/12\/24\/oklahoma-sooners-national-signing-day-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oklahoma Sooners<\/a> have officially signed <strong>Michael Henderson<\/strong>, a 6-foot-2, 234-pound athlete out of Carrolton, Texas. Henderson is a four-star recruit, per the <a href=\"http:\/\/247sports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">247Sports<\/a> composite. He has offers from Alabama, Georgia, and Arizona State among others.<\/p>\n<h3>Oklahoma Sooners Sign Four-Star Recruit Michael Henderson<\/h3>\n<p>Henderson has moved around and doesn&#8217;t have a true position set for him. He&#8217;s played quarterback, running back, and wide receiver in High School. However, he&#8217;s dynamic with the ball in his hands. He had 76 touches from a running back and a receiver position and reached the end zone on 19 occasions.<\/p>\n<p>He most likely translated to a hybrid wide receiver or tight end in <strong>Lincoln Riley&#8217;s<\/strong> system. On film, he looks like a more athletic <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/lee-morris-2.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lee Morris<\/a><\/strong>. His talent is unquestioned and that is evident with his ranking as the ninth-best athlete in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson will find himself in a loaded receiver\/tight end room if that&#8217;s where he ends up playing this season. However, Riley has had no problem getting freshmen on the field, so I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see him hit the field in some capacity this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Henderson Main Photo Credit: An end zone pylon during the Baylor Bears vs. Oklahoma Sooners game at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 29, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Baylor 66-33. (Photo by Brett Deering\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Sooners have officially signed Michael Henderson, a 6-foot-2, 234-pound athlete out of Carrolton, Texas. Henderson is a four-star recruit, per the 247Sports composite. He has offers from Alabama, Georgia, and Arizona State among others. Oklahoma Sooners Sign Four-Star Recruit Michael Henderson Henderson has moved around and doesn&#8217;t have a true position set for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,35581],"tags":[4537,4835,5117,1746,5807,37],"class_list":["post-26824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-big12","category-oklahoma-sooners","tag-2019-national-signing-day","tag-2020-recruiting","tag-lee-morris","tag-lincoln-riley","tag-michael-henderson","tag-oklahoma-sooners"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78959,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824\/revisions\/78959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}