Somewhere in the ether of the afterlife, Dr. Death is nodding with a menacing approval.
Steve Williams was a four-time All-American wrestler at Oklahoma in the late seventies and early eighties who also happened to be a first-team All-Big Eight offensive lineman -- and a four-year letterman -- for the Sooners football team as well. More than three decades later, Marquise Overton is looking for a repeat lite of Williams’ football/wrestling double-double in Norman.Cat is out of the bag. #Sooners @OvertonQue publicly announces he’s wrestling AND playing football for #OU: pic.twitter.com/mOerIWh34H
— Bob Przybylo (@BPrzybylo) January 25, 2017
.@OU_Wrestling getting a huge addition with this announcement from Que Overton - a former #okpreps state champion. pic.twitter.com/p3ZOPTPOWH
— Eddie Radosevich (@Eddie_Rado) January 25, 2017
After playing in eight games in 2015 as a freshman, Overton played in two games along the Sooners’ defensive line last season before suffering what turned out to be a season-ending ankle injury. A four-star 2015 signee, Overton was rated as the No. 4 player at any position in the state of Oklahoma and the No. 19 tackle in the country.