Oklahoma’s Stoops among Big 12’s top walk-on success stories

By CLIFF BRUNT
AP Sports Writer

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma receiver Drake Stoops has gone from walk-on at the beginning of his college career to scholarship player who has started six of his team’s nine games. Iowa State tight end Jared Rus, Kansas receiver Quentin Skinner, Kansas State linebacker Austin Moore, Oklahoma State kicker Tanner Brown, Texas Tech receiver Xavier White and West Virginia kicker Casey Legg are other Big 12 players who started as walk-ons and have become key contributors.