It’s déjà vu all over again for the Big 12.
In late April, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield was selected first-overall in the 2018 NFL draft. In early June, Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray was taken with the No. 9 pick of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. Thursday night, Oklahoma basketball quarterback Trae Young -- some people call his position in that sport a point guard, but whatever -- was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the No. 5 pick of the 2018 NBA draft.
All of that draft action over the last two months gives the Sooners three Top-10 picks in those three sports in the same calendar year, the first time that’s happened since... OU’s Red River Shootout rivals pulled off the exact same draft trifecta more than a decade ago.
With Trae Young going fifth overall, Oklahoma becomes first school to produce top 10 NFL, MLB and NBA draft picks in the same year since 2006. Texas the last program to do it (NFL: Vince Young/Michael Huff; MLB: Drew Stubbs; NBA: LaMarcus Aldridge).
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) June 22, 2018
Young was the third player taken by the Tennessee Titans in that year’s draft, while Huff was grabbed at No. 7 overall by the Oakland Raiders. Stubbs, meanwhile, was the No. 8 pick of the Cincinnati Reds while the Chicago Bulls used the No. 2 overall pick on Aldridge.
So there’s that do-it-again for the Big 12, which is nice.