College football's strangest scouting file: a former Ohio State lacrosse player who walked into Oklahoma's linebacker room, spent three years as depth, then detonated for an AP Second-Team All-SEC season in 2025 — 74 tackles, 3 sacks and 4 breakups as the every-down MIKE of an SEC defense. He then beat the NCAA in court to secure another year, and Oklahoma's front office openly uses his return as a recruiting pitch. The production profile is downhill and dependable, and the communication value is loud in how hard Venables' staff vouches for him. The skepticism is structural: one productive season, arriving late, from an older prospect on a non-traditional development path — evaluators will want proof the 2025 breakout is the player and not the outlier. Repeat the all-conference production in 2026 and he is a late-round 2027 pick with special-teams-captain projection; the floor is a priority camp invite who sticks via teams.