By A to Z Sports,AJ Schulte

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Oklahoma’s Current Schedule Brings Opening to Absorb Mateer’s Injury

The Sooners got lucky with Mateer’s injury timeline. If there was any point of the season where Oklahoma could absorb his potential absence, it’s their next month or so of games. Had this injury happened any earlier or any later than this week, this would have been a much, much different story. Oklahoma has a bye week this week, providing a week of rest in Mateer’s timeline of 3-4 weeks. Then, the Sooners welcome Kent State at home in what should be a tune-up game. With or without Mateer, Oklahoma should quite easily take care of business in that game. Skipping forward a week, the Sooners wrap up this stretch of games with a road trip to South Carolina, a team that looks like they are completely floundering right now. Those are three weeks of rest for Mateer, and two games the Sooners should be able to win without him. The unfortunate part of this stretch is that Mateer seems likely to miss the Sooners’ Red River Rivalry game against the Texas Longhorns. That game is smack in the middle of his recovery timeline. Mateer will push with everything he has to play in that game, but it’s a complete unknown if he even will be cleared to practice by that point. Fortunately, the Sooners’ defense is playing at an elite level and Texas quarterback Arch Manning is….not.