Mason Young

Tulsa World OU Sports Reporter

PHILADELPHIA — Running back Jaydn Ott has gotten off to a rough start in an Oklahoma uniform. Ott didn’t enter Saturday’s game against Temple until well into the fourth quarter and took just four carries for 11 yards.

The ballyhooed spring transfer from Cal has run just nine times for 17 yards through the Sooners first three games of the 2025 season. It’s not what anyone envisioned from the former All-Pac-12 rusher who has more than 2,500 yards to his name.

“You wish he was a little further along in every way,” head coach Brent Venables said of Ott, “but you get in there, whatever opportunities you have, you get in there, you’re ready. ... Good juice, energy, aggressiveness. Having an attack mindset, all those things, everything adds up, every

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