I'd only give partial credit though. I mean, the attrition from the 2018 class has driven OU to need guys to go directly on to the 2-deep so it's a bit of necessity to go to the portal and it's a gamble because that small 2021 class is going to have to have a really high hit-rate for those 2023-2025 seasons and there are several guys that are projects in that class. There's already been some attrition from that 2020 class and while it's early if it ends up like the 2018 class they are going to have to tap dance between recruiting numbers and transfers over and over and the previous guys that came from the portal and JUCO have had a really low hit rate. (not discussing the QBs)
Perrion Winfrey has been really good.
Chris Murray was meh-ish once he got his eligibility. Ellison is a warm body, barely.
Howard, Grant, Obialo, Harrington. All taking up spots and delivering nothing.
Wanya Morris might have been a 5* at one point but he was not good when I saw him and a quick search shows that his PFF grade at the midway point of last season was a 52.3 Lawrence barely played on a team that was wet garbage and had pretty terrible S play. Granted, all he has to do is be better than Pat Fields which is a fucking LOW bar. Gray is going to be really good but I wouldn't have traded Gray for Sermon and Pledger given the option.