The most recent athlete from Oklahoma to announce plans to leave the program this offseason is LV Bunkley-Shelton.
SAN ANTONIO: Another player has chosen to look for a transfer somewhere else as Oklahoma gets ready to close off its season in the Alamo Dome this week.
Wide receiver LV Bunkley-Shelton shared an article from On3 on social media on Tuesday afternoon, stating that he intends to use the transfer site. As a fifth-year senior and graduate transfer, Bunkley-Shelton will have one year of eligibility left. He participated in Senior Day activities on the field before Oklahoma’s regular-season finale against TCU last month.
The Compton, California native, who stands 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 197 pounds, began his career at Arizona State but has played for Oklahoma for the past two seasons. Throughout his two seasons with the Sooners, he had 24 appearances as a wide receiver in the rotation.
Bunkley-Shelton participated in 82 offensive snaps over the course of seven games, catching three catches for 33 yards on seven different targets as the Sooners assembled one of the highest-scoring offenses in the country this season. That followed a season in which he caught two passes for twenty-four yards. This fall, Bunkley-Shelton was primarily covering outside wide receivers Nic Anderson, a redshirt freshman, and Jayden Gibson, a sophomore. Anderson and Gibson caught 31 passes for 725 yards and nine touchdowns and 13 passes for 372 yards and five touchdowns, respectively, in a deep wide receiver room that proved to be one of the biggest surprises of Oklahoma’s season.
Bunkley-Shelton, who graduated from Junipero Serra High in 2020, was considered a four-star prospect by 247Sports Composite. In that cycle, he was rated as the 158th overall talent in the nation and the No. 27 wide receiver in the class. Bunkley-Shelton played wide receiver for Arizona State, appearing in 17 games and starting eight of them. He finished the season with 44 receptions for 518 yards and two scores, averaging 11.77 yards per reception.
