OU QB Murray to stick with baseball plan … for now … Oklahoma junior QB Kyler Murray, one of the 2-3 leading candidates for this year’s Heisman Trophy, confirmed during a Big XII conference championship presser that he still plans to follow through on his plan to move onto baseball at the end of the season. However, Murray did leave the door slightly ajar to keeping his football dreams alive by adding that that is the plan ‘as of now’. Murray was the 9th player drafted at last year’s MLB draft and received a $4.6M signing bonus with the Oakland A’s which he likely would have to return if he tried to stick with football. And while Murray has been a phenomenal college QB this fall, completing over 70% of his pass attempts for over 300 yards per game and 37 TDs, while running for another 850 yards and 11 scores on the ground, its not clear how highly rated a prospect Murray would be as he’s barely 5-10, 195. More than likely some team may take him with a 6th or 7th round pick on the chance that he’d return to football if his baseball career doesn’t work out. Stay tuned!
