{"id":27316,"date":"2019-12-18T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=27316"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:28:46","slug":"sooners-sign-juco-db-justin-harrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/12\/18\/sooners-sign-juco-db-justin-harrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooners Sign JUCO DB Justin Harrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma has continued its success in the JUCO ranks by officially signing <strong>Justin Harrington<\/strong>, a 6-foot-3, 214-pound defensive back out of Bakersfield College. Harrington is a four-star recruit, per the <a href=\"http:\/\/247sports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">247Sports<\/a> composite. He also had offers from Oklahoma State, North Carolina State, and Colorado among others.<\/p>\n<h2>Oklahoma Sooners Sign JUCO Defensive Back Justin Harrington<\/h2>\n<p>Harrington has the size that Alex Grinch covets from a safety position. He is the top-ranked safety in America in the JUCO ranks. In fact, overall he is the #12 player this year in JUCO. His size and ball-hawking ability make him a great fit for 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> Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington comes at a position that needs quality depth.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>For the improvement that Oklahoma has made this year in the secondary, they still don&#8217;t have quality depth behind Pat Fields and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/delarrin-turner-yell-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Delarrin Turner-Yell<\/a>. He should be able to compete immediately. Harrington has a good chance at making the field in two-deep packages during the 2020 season. His play in spring practice could go a long way to getting on the field next season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Justin Harrington Main Photo: 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>Oklahoma has continued its success in the JUCO ranks by officially signing Justin Harrington, a 6-foot-3, 214-pound defensive back out of Bakersfield College. Harrington is a four-star recruit, per the 247Sports composite. He also had offers from Oklahoma State, North Carolina State, and Colorado among others. Oklahoma Sooners Sign JUCO Defensive Back Justin Harrington Harrington [&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":[5961,37],"class_list":["post-27316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-big12","category-oklahoma-sooners","tag-justin-harrington","tag-oklahoma-sooners"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316","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=27316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78965,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316\/revisions\/78965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}