All is well with OU RB DeMarco Murray

Stoops: ‘It’s just totally different’
A year ago, OU running back DeMarco Murray was into a comeback from his first football injury and his first surgery.

And the surgery was nothing simple.

Murray, who suffered a dislocated kneecap in a late-season loss at Texas Tech, required a procedure called a "lateral release,” generally considered the last resort in treating problems with the kneecap.

The surgery involves cutting tissue on the outside of the kneecap, in order to free the knee to track correctly. Rehab is critical to rebuild cut muscle and other tissues cut during the procedure.

A year later, Murray is in comeback mode again. Yet this time, his recovery from surgery to repair a hamstring tendon in his left leg has gone much smoother.

And it shows, in reports from Murray and those around him.

"He feels great, just talking to him, he says he’s running and feels great,” said Sooners coach Bob Stoops. "It’s just totally different from the complications with his knee. That was a lot different and a lot more complicated.”