PFB’s Offensive Depth Chart Prediction Entering Fall Camp

Happy camp week.

Oklahoma State opens its fall camp this week, the first time since 2004 that a coach other than Mike Gundy has held a fall camp in Stillwater.

Ahead of the action, here’s a prediction of what OSU’s offensive depth chart might look like. We’ll take a stab at the defensive side of things tomorrow.

Quarterback

QB1: Drew Mestemaker (R-So., 6-3, 215)
QB2: Broderick Vehrs (Fr., 5-11, 205) OR Grant Jordan (R-Sr., 6-2, 217)

QB1 is about as big a layup as it gets, but I’m interested in what’s happening behind him.

Vehrs is a true freshman and Jordan is a redshirt senior (having previously been at Yale and UMass).

Neither of these guys will supplant a healthy Mestemaker. If QB1 were to get banged up at some point this year, I think it’d make sense to go with the experience of Jordan, but if the Cowboys are up 35 in the fourth quarter against Tulsa in a few weeks, I think it’d make sense to develop your potential future in Vehrs.

All we really have on either potential backup is what they did in the spring game:

Jordan: 4-for-8 for 57 yards
Vehrs: 7-for-7 for 70 yards

I’m not willing to declare a winner after watching 15 total passes thrown, but Morris did have some kind words about his freshman after the spring game.

“I think Brodie’s done a really nice job just thinking the kid should still be in high school right now,” Morris said. “Probably has the strongest arm on our team, he can really whip it. Didn’t get a bunch of great opportunities today to really showcase that, but really happy with what those guys are. Coach [Sean] Brophy does such a good job at developing those guys. But I’m happy with where our backup progression is right now.”

Running Back

RB1: Caleb Hawkins (So., 6-0, 219)
RB2: Tre Page (R-So., 5-8, 184) OR Ayo Adeyi (R-Sr., 5-7, 194) OR KD Jones (Fr., 5-11, 186)

Again, the starter is a layup, let’s talk depth.

The internet was made more aware of Page a few weeks back when PFF released a graphic showing him as the fourth-highest graded running back in the Big 12 (Hawkins was No. 1). A redshirt sophomore, Page has spent the past two seasons at Tarleton State, finishing last season with 839 rushing yards and seven touchdowns in nine games.

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Adeyi has experience with Eric Morris and running backs coach Patrick Cobbs, as Adeyi was at North Texas from 2021 to 2023 (Morris’ first year). He was the Mean Green’s leading rusher in Morris’ first season at UNT, running for 1,017 yards and six touchdowns before transferring to James Madison, where he totaled 160 yards across eight games the past two seasons.

Lastly, with the five-for-five rule, there is no redshirting. That means if Jenks product KD Jones is ready, he’ll play. Jones was a highly touted back coming out of Jenks, probably garnering more high school recruiting interest than the rest of the room combined.

Morris was asked about Jones’ potential role at Big 12 Media Days last month.

“He’s the guy that is gonna add special teams value right now,” Morris said. “He’s gotten better and better where I think, you know, with end of the end of fall camp, he could push for some playing time this year. I think physically, he’s getting better, you know, as far just his body getting bigger and stronger and be able to withstand the hits that he’s going to have to take at this level. And so I could definitely see him getting some reps this year.”

Wide Receiver

WR1s: Wyatt Young (Jr., 6-0, 199), Chris Barnes (R-So., 5-7, 169), Justin Bowick (R-Sr., 6-5, 209)
WR2s: Miles Coleman (Jr., 5-6, 158), Israel Polk (R-Jr., 6-2, 177), Rodney Harris (R-Sr., 6-1, 207)

Since there are already six listed guys, I tried my best to not dish out any ORs here, but know that if I could, I probably would’ve also included guys like Terrence Lewis and Jani Weir to that second group.

I haven’t been this excited about a group of OSU receivers since maybe that 2017 room that had like five pros in it.

Young is, deservedly, the guy everyone is talking about entering the year after finishing third in the country last season with 1,264 receiving yards. That came from the same quarterback and play-caller Young will be with this season.

After watching tiny bits of spring ball and the spring game, the guy I’m most excited to watch is the speedy Chris Barnes. Barnes hasn’t exactly broken out on the national scene quite yet, but he had a nice redshirt freshman season at Wake Forest, catching 39 passes for 547 yards and three touchdowns. He also totaled 143 rushing yards and housed a kick return.

Illinois had a solid 2025 season, finishing 9-4, and Bowick tied for a team lead in receiving touchdowns with five to go with his 22 catches for 265 yards. He has speed, but what stands out about him in this room is his height at 6-foot-5. He’s one of two receivers on OSU’s roster listed taller that 6-foot-2.

Tight End

TE1: Donovan Green (R-Sr., 6-3, 238)
TE2: Oscar Hammond (R-Sr., 6-3, 243) OR Carson Kolb (R-So., 6-4, 243)

If high school recruiting stars are the judge, Donovan Green is the most talented tight end the Cowboys have had in some time. He was a Top 5 tight end in the 2022 recruiting class before spending three seasons at Texas A&M and last year at LSU.

His best college season to this point was his true freshman campaign when Green caught 22 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns. He then had a knee injury in fall camp ahead of the 2023 season that kept him out all of that year before he returned to play eight games as an Aggie in 2024. He played in 13 games for LSU this past season but had only two catches.

Hammond is another guy with experience in Morris’ system. A lot of the talk this offseason has been about all the North Texas players following Morris up from Denton, but Morris actually followed Hammond. After two seasons at UCO, Hammond made the jump up to the Division-I level at UNT in 2024, playing in 10 games and making six starts where he caught 19 passes for 238 yards and a touchdown. He then transferred to OSU ahead of last season, but an injury kept him out the whole year before his UNT brethren made their voyage up I-35.

There wasn’t a guy I looked up on the roster more in the spring than No. 44: Carson Kolb. At 6-foot-4, 235 pounds, Kolb certainly looks the part out there. He comes to Stillwater from Oregon State. He doesn’t have a college catch to his name yet.

Offensive Line

LT1: Jacob Sexton (R-Sr., 6-6, 328)
LG1: Braydon Nelson (Jr., 6-4, 327)
C1: Tyler Mercer (R-So., 6-4, 300)
RG1: Johnny Dickson III (R-Sr., 6-2, 317)
RT1: Ashton Lepo (R-Sr., 6-7, 320)

LT2: Joseph Hanson (Sr., 6-4, 302)
LG2: Desmond Magiya (R-Jr., 6-4, 333)
C2: Jakobe Sanders (R-Jr. 6-2, 327)
RG2: Louie Canepa (R-Sr., 6-3, 299)
RT2: Shaun Torgeson (R-So., 6-4, 302)

Some of these guys were banged up in the spring, and they were seemingly all moving around testing out different positions. All that is to say, I’m quite unsure where these guys are going to line up.

What I do feel fairly confident in is that Tyler Mercer, a Kansas transfer who previously played at UNT, will start at center, and some combination of these five guys will likely be around him in some order: Sexton, Nelson, Dickson, Lepo and Hanson. Whomever the odd man out is in that scenario, I’d expect him to be the first guy off the bench no matter the position (outside of maybe center).

Although I’m not entirely sure where this group is going to lineup, I’ve grown more bullish on the position group as a whole. Nelson, Dickson and Mercer have experience under Morris, while Sexton and Lepo have Power Five starting experience. Then Hanson was an All-Sun Belt selection at Coastal.

Even a younger guy like Torgeson has compiled a decent amount of experience at this point, having started all of Portland State’s (FCS) games at left tackle last season.