Oklahoma State spring football preview: Receivers and tight ends

Continuing our position-by-position breakdown leading up to the start of Oklahoma State spring football.

Today, we look at receivers and tight ends.

Outside receiver

Who’s gone

Isaiah Anderson, departed senior

Who’s back

Tracy Moore, senior
2012 stats: 20 catches, 259 yards, four touchdowns (granted medical redshirt after season-ending ankle injury)

Charlie Moore, senior
2012 stats: 35 catches, 542 yards, six touchdowns

Austin Hays, sophomore
2012 stats: 29 catches, 394 yards, two touchdowns

C.J. Curry, redshirt freshman
2012 stats: Two catches, 33 yards (granted medical redshirt after season-ending shoulder injury)

Nick Rockwell, senior
2012 stats: One catch, nine yards

Brandon Sheperd, sophomore
2012 stats: One catch, one yard, one touchdown

Jhajuan Seales, redshirt freshman

Who arrives in the fall
Marcell Ateman, freshman
Ra’Shaad Samples, freshman

The skinny

The Cowboys lose a part-time starter in Anderson, but gain much more with Tracy Moore’s return. He successfully made the transition from inside to outside before the injury, but can move back inside when needed. As mentioned in this piece, it will be most interesting to see how his chemistry develops with all three quarterback contenders. He had it with Lunt, not so much with Walsh and was hurt by the time Chelf became the starter.

Hays surprisingly surfaced to the top of a large group of freshman receivers that arrived in Stillwater last season, but Curry, Sheperd and Seales are all regarded as guys with big-play potential. Seales is especially intriguing, as he was a late-bloomer in high school.

The Moores should lock up the starting spots, while the youngsters battle for the backup roles.

Other outside receivers on spring football roster
Blake Barkemeyer
Kameron Doolittle
Brendan Fagan
Cameron Gravelle
Trey Johnson
Nate Miller
Billy Morgan
Logan Nault
Jackson Radford
Zach Yates

Inside receiver

Who’s gone

None

Who’s back

Josh Stewart, junior
101 catches, 1,210 yards, seven touchdowns
Eight rushes, 120 yards, one touchdown