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Oklahoma’s New Backup QB Is Three Years Older Than C.J. Stroud And Will Play 7th Year Of College

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Former four-star quarterback recruit Casey Thompson announced his commitment to Oklahoma on Thursday night. He is old.

Thompson, who began his college football career as the backup to Sam Ehlinger at Texas in 2018, is set to play his seventh season with his fourth different team. It has been quite the journey.

Casey Thompson has had a rollercoaster career.

There was an initial expectation that Casey Thompson would serve as Ehlinger’s successor with the Longhorns. That never happened. He played in 19 games over four seasons, including a redshirt year, and went 4-6 as the starter during his redshirt junior year.

Thompson transferred to Nebraska and, once again, went 4-6 as the starter.

With five seasons behind him, the Oklahoma-native hit the portal again with one year of eligibility remaining because of the blanket waiver granted to all athletes in 2020. Tom Herman recruited his former quarterback at Texas to join him in Boca Raton and Thompson committed to FAU.

Unfortunately, after starting the first three games of the year, he tore his ACL. Fortunately, the NCAA approved his request for a medical hardship waiver and granted him one final season of eligibility.

Now, at age 25, Thompson is headed to his fourth school in seven years. He is exactly three years older than C.J. Stroud.

They were both born on Oct. 3.

Thompson was born in 1998. Stroud was born in 2001.

Stroud is set to play in the Wild Card round of the NFL Playoffs this weekend. Thompson, on the other hand, is transferring to Oklahoma. It the bitter rival of the school at which he began his career and the alma mater of his father Charles Thompson, who played quarterback for the Sooners in the late 1980s.

To make the entire thing even crazier, Casey is not going to a program that will allow him to play right away. Jackson Arnold will be the starter. The seventh-year quarterback will be his backup. Wild!