Oklahoma wants its receiver room to be a real problem in 2026, and the early signs point to speed driving the plan.
At the front of that group is redshirt senior Isaiah Sategna, who looks like the natural headliner after putting together a team-best 965 receiving yards in 2025. The former Arkansas track standout - the 2021-22 Gatorade Arkansas Boys Track and Field Player of the Year - spent three seasons with the Razorbacks before bringing his burst to OU, and the production matched the reputation.
He posted four 100-yard games last season, doing it against LSU, then-No. 22 Auburn, then-No.
8 Mississippi and then-No. 22 Missouri.
That explosiveness showed up again in the Sooners’ spring game, where Sategna hauled in a 50-yard catch. But offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle said the biggest jump has come away from the stat sheet, where Sategna has grown into a more vocal presence.
"The coolest thing about Isaiah is watching him grow into a leadership role, ..." Arbuckle said. "Watching him bring along young guys and be an example at practice, ... that's been awesome."
Oklahoma also added two transfers who bring plenty of punch to the room: Parker Livingstone and Trell Harris. Livingstone arrived after a redshirt freshman season at Texas in which he totaled 516 receiving yards, while Harris comes over from Virginia after finishing with 847 this past year.
Quarterback John Mateer said in March that Livingstone already showed a strong feel for the offense.
“(Livingstone) feels the game really well, feels the space, and he picked up the offense (quickly),” redshirt senior quarterback John Mateer said in March.
Livingstone, for his part, said speed is the part of his game people miss.
“I think I get slept on on my speed, …” Livingstone said. “That’s my strongest advantage.”
He also made it clear the Red River Rivalry still means plenty to him, even if the jersey has changed.
“That's the best game in college football,” Livingstone said. “When I was at Texas and getting ready for that game, like, that was the game of the year.
That's what we all look forward to. … We wanted to go there, and we wanted to beat the crap out of OU.
So now being in the OU jersey, I want to go there, and I want to beat the crap out of Texas.”
Another name to watch is Mackenzie Alleyne, who could give the Sooners a needed spark after an offense that ranked No. 79 nationally last season. The redshirt sophomore didn’t put up huge numbers at Washington State, finishing 2025 with 72 receiving yards, but Arbuckle said Alleyne has been one of the spring’s standouts.
“He’s had an awesome spring,” Arbuckle said. “He’s a fierce competitor.
He understands the position. It's helped that he was with me at Wazzu for a year, so it's not really that new to him.
… He's (also) bought into completely everything that coach (Brent) Venables preaches to us.”
Alleyne spent his first year at Washington State redshirting in 2024, the same season Arbuckle and Mateer helped guide that program to the No. 6 offense in the nation. Alleyne said Mateer looks even more polished now.
“More comfortable in the pocket, he’s putting the ball right where it needs to (be), right where he needs to put only for me to get the ball, “ Alleyne said. “So I know that I can always expect the best from him, and I’m going to give him the best from here.”
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