Mason Young
Tulsa World OU Sports Reporter
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NORMAN — Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables confirmed Tuesday that center and team captain Troy Everett sustained a season-ending knee injury during practice last week.
Everett did not travel with the Sooners to their game against Temple in Philadelphia last Sunday and he is no longer listed on OU’s online depth chart.
Venables said Everett injured the knee opposite the one he hurt in 2024 spring practice. That previous injury caused Everett to miss the first half of the 2024 season.
“Hate that for him,” Venables said. “It’s just devastating. … He’s having a really good year and just a great leader and he’ll have to lead in a different type of way. Really hurt for him. All the pain, the sacrifice that he’s been through. But he’s really tough, and he’ll move on, move forward and he’ll find another way to use all the leadership qualities that he has to help us.”
Everett is a former Appalachian State transfer who was a swing guard and center during the 2023 season, his first year at OU.
Everett began the 2025 season as OU’s starting center against Illinois State, but ceded the starting role to Stanford transfer Jake Maikkula in Week 2 versus Michigan.
Maikkula also started versus Temple, and he figures to be OU’s snapper moving forward, with starting right guard Febechi Nwaiwu as his likely backup.
Walk-on Gunnar Allen and freshman Owen Hollenbeck would be deep depth options in the event that Maikkula and Nwaiwu both go down.
“Not many teams have three or four centers,” Venables said. “So, we’ve got a good plan. If we have to address that at some point in time, we’ll be fine.”
Offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle expressed similar confidence in the offensive line moving forward without Everett.
“I feel great about those guys,” Arbuckle said Tuesday. “Feel great about the work that they’ve put in. It’s been awesome to see (offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh) develop all those guys, especially on the interior for different positions where they could play. So I feel really good about them.”
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