Former Texas, Nebraska and Florida Atlantic quarterback Casey Thompson has been granted a seventh year of eligibility.
Thompson committed to Oklahoma on Thursday. He will be 26 years old when the Sooners play Texas next season.
Here are more details from ESPN:
Thompson was a graduate student at FAU this past season playing for coach Tom Herman, who originally signed him at Texas. He played in three games before tearing an ACL and was granted a medical hardship waiver for one more year.
Thompson, the son of former Sooners quarterback Charles Thompson, will return home to Oklahoma where he was a high school star, setting a state record with 12,840 yards of offense and 154 touchdowns. He will be the third player in modern history (joining offensive lineman Paul Moriarty in 1991 and wide receiver Brenen Thompson this spring, both of whom also started out at Texas and transferred to Oklahoma) to have played on both sides of the Red River Rivalry.
Thompson will turn 26 on Oct. 3, nine days before the Sooners and Longhorns meet.
You’re my boy, Blue!
