OKLAHOMA – The good news has finally come. Sophomore wide receiver Trejan Bridges<\/b>\u00a0has been cleared by the NCAA and is good to go for this weekend’s Big 12 Championship Game against Iowa State.<\/p>\n
OUInsider.com’s Brandon Drumm was able to confirm the news Friday morning. After Bridges, his family and head coach\u00a0Lincoln Riley<\/b>\u00a0met with the NCAA several times in previous months, they just found out in recent days he’d be able to play in the final two contests this season.<\/p>\n
Even within the past week, though, Riley indicated it was anything but a sure thing that he’d be available for the conference title and bowl game.<\/p>\n
“I know what the worst case scenario is, but everything else kind of continues to hang in the balance, like this whole thing has done,” Riley said.<\/p>\n
As that would suggest, it’s been a trying process for Bridges after making an impact in multiple ways as a true freshman during the 2019 campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s been really difficult,” Riley said. “No, it\u2019s been hard…He\u2019s hanging in there. He\u2019s worked hard at practice, and he\u2019ll be ready when his opportunity comes up. But it has. It\u2019s been very difficult for him, and he\u2019s doing his best to push through it. We\u2019re doing our best to help him through it. And he\u2019s going to get through it. He\u2019s getting close here. So he\u2019s going to get through it, and he\u2019s going to be OK, and he\u2019s going to be a really good player. So [he\u2019s] just got to hang in there a little bit longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OKLAHOMA – The good news has finally come. Sophomore wide receiver Trejan Bridges\u00a0has been cleared by the NCAA and is good to go for this weekend’s Big 12 Championship Game against Iowa State. OUInsider.com’s Brandon Drumm was able to confirm the news Friday morning. After Bridges, his family and head coach\u00a0Lincoln Riley\u00a0met with the NCAA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"yoast_head":"\n