Oklahoma State Offers 2018 Denton Ryan QB Spencer Sanders

Oklahoma State has extended an offer to rising junior quarterback prospect Spencer Sanders of Denton Ryan High School in Texas.

Honored an blessed to receive an offer from OSU???? pic.twitter.com/NcyXEVcYCH

— Spencer Sanders (@SpenceSanders) June 8, 2016

After the scholarship was extended, offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich hit Sanders with the ole subtweet — not mentioning him directly but naming his area code and sending him a message about his feelings toward the 2018 QB.

9⃣4⃣0⃣ young ? has what you say is a bright future…..Bright Orange?????#GoPokes #OkState pic.twitter.com/O8pJGU3DXG

— Michael Yurcich (@Coach_Yurcich) June 8, 2016

Sanders now has more than a dozen offers which include Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Penn State, Ole Miss, SMU, North Texas, Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, K-State and now Oklahoma State.

As a sophomore, he threw for 2,599 yards and 24 touchdowns which has lead to offers from a team in every power five conference.

The 6-2 play caller has a very strong arm for such a young prospect and is in a good system that caters to his strengths similar to a form of the air raid.

He’s very athletic and pretty mobile for a kid his size. But in the system he runs he’s not asked to be the dual-threat guy we’ve come to see from Texas high school quarterbacks. He definitely has flashes of being able to run if needed. Generally, he’s used to sit in the pocket and fling the ball across the field. But he has good pocket awareness, too, which if you scroll to the 2:45 mark or so you can see a good example of that. Pocket collapses and he uses that to break off an impressive TD run and shields off defenders downfield.

I really like the offer to Sanders. The Cowboys are also working 2018 QB Cameron Rising of Newbury Park, California, and the offer to Sanders is an interesting one as they both are about the same height and same skillset.

What I find interesting is that OSU is still in a decent place with Rising. In regards to recruiting, it’s not uncommon to see offers to multiple players at the same position. However with quarterbacks, most schools only take one per class. So the offer to Sanders could perhaps speed up Rising’s commitment timeline or, as I mentioned last week, could simply be a new age tactic of recruiting, as most players don’t consider they’re being truly recruited until they’ve been offered by a school.

Regardless, it seems that the coaching staff is making some big moves to try and get an early start to the 2018 class. And landing a quarterback early on in the process is the direction the staff wants to head first to try and get to another quick start like the 2017 class.